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An indexed, peer-reviewed journal of the AAFP | Practical ideas for improving practice, enhancing the patient experience, and developing a rewarding career

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The real power of AI for busy physicians? It’s "an intellectual pressure relief valve, helping preserve our cognitive reserve." bit.ly/46r187C

AI and the 4 p.m. Slump

Leveraging AI to reduce low-value tasks can create decision-making capacity.

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Deciding which AI tools to implement — and which to avoid — just got EASIER. bit.ly/4xX28wj

An “EASIER” Framework for Evaluating AI Tools

Deciding which AI tools to implement, and which to avoid, just got EASIER.

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This clinic set out to create a garden for patients in need — and ended up cultivating connection, wellness, and blue-ribbon-worthy rosemary. Here’s how. bit.ly/3TxPAwn

Harvesting Health: How to Build a Clinic-Based Community Garden

A clinic-based garden can help feed your community in more ways than one. Here's how to build and sustain it.

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A roadmap to help navigate the prior-authorization maze for GLP-1 medications. bit.ly/4h7PUtk

Easing Prior Authorization for GLP-1s

The right documentation can streamline approvals and help patients access these often life-changing medications.

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Primary care physicians now have a simpler way to get paid for the time they spend managing patients' care between visits: Advanced Primary Care Management codes. No time tracking required. bit.ly/3SQt6GJ

Implementing Advanced Primary Care Management: A Practical Guide

Primary care practices now have a simpler way to get paid for time spent managing patients' care between visits, including behavioral health care.

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Highlights from our latest issue: A Guide to APCM Coding | Easing Prior Auth for GLP-1s | How to Build a Clinic-Based Community Garden | An "EASIER" Framework for Evaluating AI Tools | Rethinking Parental Leave in Medicine | Coding Q&As aafp.org/fpm
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In this joint editorial, editors of the seven US-based family medicine journals underscore the evidence that a strong primary care infrastructure is clearly related to improved health. aafp.org/fpm/2026/0900/power…

The Power of Primary Care to Improve Health

Given the known benefits of primary care, health organizations and policymakers should refocus resources to the services that will serve patients best.

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Authors: Sumi Sexton, MD; Sarina Schrager, MD, MS; Dean Seehusen, MD, MPH; Christopher P. Morley, PhD; Caroline Richardson, MD; Jon Neher, MD; and James DomDera, MD
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Note: This editorial is being published simultaneously in @AFPJournal, @AnnFamMed, Evidence-Based Practice, @fammedjournal, @FPMJournal,@JAmBoardFamMed, and @PRiMER_Journal.
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In honor of #PeerReviewWeek, thank you to the FPM peer reviewers for your contributions to our journal. We could not do the important work of supporting family physicians without you! aafp.org/fpm/2026/0100/peer-…

Thank You, 2025 FPM Peer Reviewers

Quality peer reviews help the FPM editors select and publish articles that are accurate, authoritative, and useful to family physicians and others in primary care. We would like to thank the follow...

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Lifestyle counseling for overweight or sarcopenia: when to bill 99401-99404 and when not to. bit.ly/4wwZ4Gz

Coding & Documentation

Coding & Documentation

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What’s missing in resident training: a curriculum for navigating the health care maze. bit.ly/3RFEOmH

Preparing Residents to Navigate the Health Care System

We do our residents a disservice if we let them finish training without a basic understanding of the labyrinthine health care system.

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Health plans keep pledging — and failing — to relieve the prior auth burden. Now, regulators have stepped in with much-needed reforms. bit.ly/4wqrgdV

Prior Authorization Reforms: The New Reality

New regulations and new pressures on health plans could finally bring change to prior authorization. Here’s what you need to know to protect your patients’ rights, and your own.

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EHR-induced burnout is real. Employers should provide ongoing, individualized EHR training beyond onboarding. bit.ly/4fvhFNe

Improving EHR Efficiency Through Individualized Optimization Sessions

A short session of personalized training with a medical informaticist can help physicians mitigate pain points and learn new EHR functions.

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Don’t go into a job search without knowing what your peers make — and how happy they are — across practice settings. These tools can help. bit.ly/4vUKXtv

Practice Pearls

Practice Pearls

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What’s a sustainable workload in family medicine? 20 patients per day. bit.ly/4fyGaZX

Estimating a Sustainable Workload in Primary Care: Implications on the Physician Shortage

In many practices, the primary care workload is unsustainable. Establishing a more reasonable one is, paradoxically, key to addressing the workforce shortage.

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The evidence for empathy: 1) It improves outcomes — even better than nonpharma therapy, opioids, and surgery in one study, and 2) It protects against burnout. bit.ly/4wqqZrp

On Empathy

Research suggests that empathy has benefits for patients — and doctors.

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Want to add POCUS to your practice? Use this credentialing checklist. bit.ly/3S4Sg3M

A Guide to Point-of-Care Ultrasound Credentialing in Family Medicine

Whether you are navigating your organization's POCUS credentialing process or trying to establish one, three elements are key: training, scope of practice, and quality review.

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The proposed 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule includes a cut to the conversion factor (the amount Medicare pays per RVU), but would also change visit complexity code G2211 from a flat-rate payment to a % of its corresponding E/M code. bit.ly/45CYD1i

Medicare physician fee schedule proposal includes changes to G2211, other codes

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule for the 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) includes a number of proposals germane to family medicine, including changes to...

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