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Economic analysis of virtual Medical Legal Partnership model [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: Medicaid Claims, Epic electronic health record. Clinics: AF Williams Family Medicine, Lowry Internal Medicine. Conclusions: Increased cost and utilization in primary care and behavioral health services, though net positive in the short run may not have had sufficient time horizon to demonstrate savings.

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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. Phillips, Jr.

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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. Measurement-based care in integrated health care: A randomized clinical trial. Families, Systems, & Health, 39(2), 259–268.

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Action Needed to Close Racial Gaps in Autism Services

Physician's Weekly

“Although there has been considerable progress in diagnosing autism in people from minoritized racial and ethnic backgrounds, the autism field must begin to devote more resources and attention to improving services and quality of life for minoritized autistic people,” Diondra Straiton, PhD , tells Physician’s Weekly.

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"Investigating White Culture": a Phenomenological Study on How Culture Shapes Behavioral Health Processes in Primary Care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Integrated Primary Care (IPC) has increased due to increased demand for behavioral health services.

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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention: Patient navigation program to specialist treatment from primary care with additional referral to behavioral health services. A particular focus was those falling outside of the traditional birth cohort.

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Governor’s 2025-26 May Revision Proposes Major Cuts to Healthcare and Undermines Medi-Cal Expansion Commitments

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

The revenue from this tax has been used to fund key Medi-Cal services, such as supplemental payments for family planning and reproductive health care services and dental care. CAFP is actively advocating to preserve critical workforce funding that trains and sustains family physicians across the state.