The AAFP submitted a statement supp...

The AAFP submitted a statement supporting funding for family medicine training programs (under Title VII, Section 747 of the Public Health Service Act), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and rural health programs. The AAFP backs the recommendation from a congressional advisory committee for $198 million for Section 747 in 2005 In 2004 the funding is $82 million, which is $10 million les than in 2003 The secondary statement from AAFP encourages testing of a chronic care case-management program that enlists primary care physicians, including family physicians, and veils their services through Medicare. The statement says that the classification of care that the Medicare Prescription mix with drugs Improvement and Modernization Act try to finds to create for beneficiaries with chronic conditions must have primary care physician offices as its basis. The testimonial statements are available online at: http:// www.aafp.org/x659.xml.

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