Articles
CPT Update for 2011: Immunizations, Observations and More
Changes include new codes for pediatric vaccine administration and subsequent hospital observation care.
Should Your Practice Participate in a Quality-Reporting Program?
To answer this question, you must balance anticipated costs with potential gains.
The 2011 FPM Survey of User Satisfaction with EHR Systems
The survey takes just minutes, and your response matters more than ever to your colleagues. Besides, you just might win an iPad.
Integrating a Behavioral Health Specialist Into Your Practice
Close collaboration may be the best solution for your patients and your practice.
What You Need to Know About the Medicare Preventive Services Expansion
This guidance and our downloadable tools will make the new rules easier to implement.
From the Editor
A Microcosm of the Health Care ‘System’
Should a patient ask you what's wrong with health care today, where do you start?
Letters
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Immunization billing when Medicare is secondary payer | Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm | Noninvasive diagnostic vascular studies | Flu and pneumococcal vaccines administered by nurses
Practice Pearls
PRACTICE PEARLS
Uncover medication non-adherence with a simple question | Protect against contamination during colposcopies | Provide specific prescription directions | Call about unpaid claims | Learn to say no