March/April 2011
Features
Answers to Your Questions About Medicare Annual Wellness Visits
Four Strategies for Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in Your Practice
Using a Simple Spreadsheet to Improve Intra-Office Communication and Patient Flow
Five Common Coding Mistakes That Are Costing You
Departments
From the Editor
The Problem With Health IT
Robert L. Edsall
Letters
EHRs: Attitude Isn't Everything
Controlled Substance Refill Program: A Sign of a Broken Health Care System?
Change in Medicare Annual Wellness Visit Elements
Practice Pearls
Dialogue With Patients About Over-the-Counter Medications Registering for the EHR Incentive Programs Go Green for the Environment and Your Bottom Line
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
The Last Word
The Hope and the Hype of Health IT
Bobby J. Newbell
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