March/April 2011

Features

Answers to Your Questions About Medicare Annual Wellness Visits

Cindy Hughes

Four Strategies for Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in Your Practice

Janet Ann McAndrews; Sarah McMullen; Susan L. Wilson

Using a Simple Spreadsheet to Improve Intra-Office Communication and Patient Flow

David Margolius; Mark Ghaly

Five Common Coding Mistakes That Are Costing You

Emily Hill

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

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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