Articles
Answers to Your Questions About Medicare Annual Wellness Visits
Our previous issue described the requirements and introduced an encounter form for documenting these visits. Now we answer your questions about this newest Medicare benefit.
Four Strategies for Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in Your Practice
When practices promote fitness as the treatment of choice for all patients, good things happen.
Using a Simple Spreadsheet to Improve Intra-Office Communication and Patient Flow
Does your patient flow suffer because communication between front and back offices is awkward? Here's a solution to the problem -- for free.
Five Common Coding Mistakes That Are Costing You
Fix these problems to increase your bottom line.
From the Editor
The Problem With Health IT
It will do great things – someday. But what do you do until then?
Letters
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Using medical assistants to scribe with EHRs | ICD-9 codes and combination vaccines | Same-day discharge and readmission to another hospital with transfer to another doctor in the same group | 99211 visits | High-dose influenza vaccine
Practice Pearls
PRACTICE PEARLS
Dialogue with patients about over-the-counter medications | Go green for the environment and your bottom line | Registering for the EHR incentive programs
The Last Word
The Hope and the Hype of Health IT
Diagnosing illness and treating patients: There's just not an app for that.