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MAY / JUNE 2016

Articles

Understanding the New 60-Day Overpayment Rule

Alice G. Gosfield

Federal regulations for identifying and reimbursing Medicare overpayments impose new obligations you can't afford to ignore.

Seven Principles for Improving Service and Patient Satisfaction

Jon T. Nordrum, Denise M. Kennedy

A systematic approach that follows these seven principles can help you translate patient feedback into improved service.

Encouraging Children's Literacy in Your Practice

Sumana Reddy, Bhavya Reddy

Providing free books to your youngest patients can improve literacy and patient satisfaction.

Improving Blood Pressure Control With Strategic Workflows

Arnold E. Cuenca

Setting a goal, identifying the right patients, and implementing team care can help bring hypertension under control.

From the Editor

Employed Practice

Maximizing Your Medical Assistant's Role

R. Scott Eden

Delegation, technology, and training enabled our MAs – and doctors – to grow.

Coding & Documentation

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Cindy Hughes

New-patient history requirements | Prolonged clinical staff services | Incident-to diagnostic testing

Practice Pearls

PRACTICE PEARLS

Jennifer Brull, Jay G. Mercer, Barbara Stahura

Change your phone message to reduce ER visits | Standardize vaccine storage for efficiency and temperature control | Texting patients and complying with HIPAA

The Last Word

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