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UAFP is Excited to Announce the Return of CME & Ski in 2022!

CME & Ski is BACK! Join us for the 6th Annual UAFP CME & Ski! In addition to learning, you and your family are able to ski at a world-class resort and enjoy the many amenities Park City, UT has to offer! Registration opens August 1. 

UAFP, with a grant from the AAFP Center for Diversity and Health Equity, is offering this course for ALL healthcare providers seeking to better understand the impact of unconscious bias and how to reduce negative effects of implicit/unconscious bias on patients. We hope you will make time for this important topic on Saturday, September 18. Both in-person and virtual options available. 

AAFP Joins Push to Immunize Health Workers Against COVID-19

AAFP - With the COVID-19 delta variant driving widespread policy changes and the nation’s pandemic recovery shifting rapidly underfoot, the Academy joined a broad coalition of medical organizations on July 26 to urge every health care and long-term care employer to require workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

“We stand with the growing number of experts and institutions that support the requirement for universal vaccination of health workers,” the groups said in a statement. Read more...

Budget Neutrality Undercuts Payment in 2022 Proposed MPFS

AAFP - A possible reduction in physician payment toplines a new AAFP summary for members of the proposed rule for the 2022 Medicare physician fee schedule, which CMS released July 23 and has ignited sharp congressional advocacy by the Academy and a broad coalition of medical groups.

The AAFP summary warns that according to the AMA, a 1.6% reduction in allowed charges for family medicine could result if next year’s fee schedule goes into effect as proposed without congressional intervention. Absent such a legislative remedy, “ongoing structural problems with the MPFS … could result in many beneficiaries losing timely access to essential health care services,” said the Academy and more than 100 other medical organizations in a July 23 letter to House and Senate leaders. Read more...

CDC: Vaccinated May Carry As Much Virus as Unvaccinated

AP - Scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of the coronavirus as those who did not get the shots. Health officials on Friday released details of that research (Read the full report from the CDC here), which was key in this week’s decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recommend that vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the delta variant is fueling infection surges. The authors said the findings suggest that the CDC’s mask guidance should be expanded to include the entire country, even outside of hot spots. Read more...

As Utah reports 1,211 new COVID-19 cases, doctor predicts things could get worse

KSL.com -  Utah public health officials reported more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for the second day in a row Friday, and one physician said to expect that things could get even worse as school starts this fall. The Utah Department of Health reported 1,211 new coronavirus cases Friday, along with one more death and 351 hospitalizations. That's the highest single-day case total since 1,299 cases were reported on Feb. 10. Before Thursday, Utah hadn't reported over 1,000 cases in a single day since Feb. 18. Read more...