May/June 2010

Features

How Health Care Reform Will Affect Family Physicians

Brandi White

How to Be an Efficient and Effective Preceptor

Frances E. Biagioli; Kathy Chappelle

Exam Documentation: Charting Within the Guidelines

Kent J. Moore

The 12-Step Way to Reduce Practice Expenses: Part 2, Operational Efficiencies

Reed Tinsley

Departments

From the Editor

Your Piece of the Deficit
Robert L. Edsall

Opinion

Why the Medicare Fee Schedule and RVUs Matter to Employed Family Physicians
Kent J. Moore

Practice Pearls

• Show "Signs" of Your Patient Commitment • Make Use of a Free, Medical Spanish Resource • Use Analogies to Increase Patient Compliance • Decorate Your Stirrup Covers • "Treat Every Defect as a Treasure" • Code Diagnoses With a Free, Web-Based Look-Up Tool • Improve Your Patients' Check-in Experience

Coding & Documentation

• Pre-Colonoscopy Visit • Punch Biopsy • Wound Repair Global Periods • Cryotherapy for Warts

Letters

• Letters to Health Plans That Send Letters

• Documenting the HPI

The Last Word

How to Clean Up in Family Medicine
Bobby J. Newbell

About the CME Quiz

AAFP members and FPM subscribers can take the CME quiz online at http://www.aafp.org/fpmquiz.

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