Articles
CPT Update for 2013
This year's changes include some promising new codes for care coordination.
A Streamlined Approach to Prescription Management
Synchronizing each patient's prescriptions so they're handled all at once could save your practice at least an hour a day.
A Toolkit for Clinicians Rounding in Long-Term Care Facilities
A lack of appropriate bedside equipment can impede thorough clinical evaluations, but this can be easily remedied.
A Team-Building Model for Team-Based Care
Focusing on their strengths and borrowing concepts from family therapy helped bring this family medicine group together in pursuit of a common goal.
The 2012 EHR User Satisfaction Survey: Responses From 3,088 Family Physicians
Where else can you get EHR advice from a few thousand colleagues?
From the Editor
The Role of Peer Review in FPM
The FPM editorial team includes dozens of family physicians and other subject matter experts.
Letters
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Documenting time | Initial vs. subsequent nursing facility care | Modifier 52 | Medicare annual wellness visit shortcut
Practice Pearls
PRACTICE PEARLS
Create a wallet-sized medication list | Eat a meal with your staff | View the family as an ally in treatment adherence | Stop seeing your colleagues' patients | Follow up on a patient's bad behavior
The Last Word
Appreciate the Now
Worries about the past or future can sap your joy and productivity in the present.