Paying your 2017 dues is easy through the American Academy of Family Physicians online dues payment service,  Quick Pay.

Quick pay allows any individual (member, office staff, spouse of a member, etc.) to pay a member's dues invoice without logging into the member's AAFP account. The only information that is required to make a payment is the member's AAFP ID number and dues invoice number. It's as simple as that.

Continue to enjoy your MAFP membership benefits by remitting your payment through   Quick Pay , or by  calling the AAFP at  800.274.2237.

Your MAFP membership is appreciated!

Medicaid Provider revalidation begins April 2017. In order to ensure provider access for Medicaid beneficiaries, all providers need to enroll. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires all State Medicaid agencies to revalidate the enrollment of all providers at least every five years. Beginning April 2017, DOM will begin a mail rollout process which will be used to notify providers enrolled in the Mississippi Medicaid Program for five or more years of the revalidation requirement. Revalidation notifications will be issued on a staggered schedule until notices have been issued to all providers due for revalidation. Attached is an article that will be published in Medicaid's March Provider Bulletin about this requirement. 

For enrollment questions, contact Provider Enrollment at 1-800-884-3222.

Don't miss the CME session on Direct Primary Care by Drs. Timothy Alford, John Vanderloo and Micah Walker at the MAFP Spring Conference! Click here for the brochure.

In 2015, the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians worked with members of the legislature and the Governor to ensure the passage of the "Mississippi Direct Primary Care Act." At that time, there were only 7 other states in the nation to provide laws regarding a DPC agreement.

 

Direct Primary Care gives doctors more freedom with patients to practice medicine instead of being tied to insurance requirements. With the MAFP championing the DPC movement in Mississippi, we have ensured that DPC agreements cannot be viewed as insurance policies. If you are considering moving to a DPC agreement with your patients, make sure your contracts mirror the state law. All of the following requirements must be met:

1) Be in writing;

2) Be signed by the individual patient or his or her legal representative and be made  available for the records of the primary care provider or agent of the primary care provider;

3) Allow either party to terminate the agreement on written notice to the other party;

4) Describe the scope of the primary care services that are covered by the periodic fee;

5) Specify the periodic fee for ongoing care under the agreement;

6) Specify the duration of the agreement, any automatic renewal periods, and require that no more than twelve (12) months of the periodic fee be paid in advance. Upon discontinuing the agreement all unearned funds, as determined by the lesser of normal undiscounted fee-for-service charges that would have been billed in place of the agreement or the remainder of the membership contract, are returned to the patient; and

7) Prominently state in writing that the agreement is not health insurance.

 

  The MAFP is supportive of legislation at the federal level that would clarify that a DPC is not health insurance. Federal lawmakers are aware of the growing interest in the direct primary care model and have introduced legislation. To read the full AAFP story ,  click here .