In this episode, AAFP Government Relations Vice President David Tully welcomes back to the podcast Yalda Jabbarpour, M.D., director of the Academy’s Robert Graham Center and a practicing family physician. Their conversation centers on the RGC’s latest primary care scorecard, titled “The Cost of Neglect,” and how this new research shows the effects of chronic underinvestment in primary care.
Tully also updates Academy members on two policy changes:
the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s recent announcement that it will end several of its models, including two the Academy has championed — Primary Care First and Making Care Primary; and
an executive order affecting the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which has benefited family physicians.
Topics
00:00 Welcome to Fighting for Family Medicine, and a conversation with Robert Graham Center Director Yalda Jabbarpour, M.D.
01:18 Introducing Dr. Yabbarpour
01:35 What’s going on with primary care spending and where should the money be going?
04:19 What are the consequences to practices and patients of low investment and payment?
06:35 What’s at issue with graduate medical education funding and what the scorecard calls its “misdirection”?
10:05 Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education uncertainty
10:56 What does primary care research look like and where should it fit in among broader efforts to improve evidence-based care?
13:13 Updates on PSLF and CMMI
14:55 Join the AAFP’s advocacy.
15:19 Conclusion
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