January/February 2017

Features

New Codes, New Payment Opportunities for 2017

Kent J. Moore; Barbara Hayes

Making Sense of MACRA, Part 2: Value-Based Payment and Your Future

Amy Mullins

Why Best Practices Fail to Spread

John S. Toussaint; Montgomery Elmer

The State of Family Medicine: 2017

Brandi White; David Twiddy

Departments

From the Editor

Should We Fear the Unintended Consequences of MACRA?
Kenneth G. Adler

Thank You, FPM Peer Reviewers (2016)

Supplement

Making Sense of MACRA: Annual Wellness Visit

Practice Pearls

• Reduce faxed requests for Rx renewals • Create improvement that lasts • Rethink how you store patient records

Coding & Documentation

• Vital signs • Noncontributory documentation • Preoperative exam • FX modifier for x-ray

The Last Word

Ten Sins of Office Medicine
Keith Millette

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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