Articles
A Team-Based Care Model That Improves Job Satisfaction
Expanding the role of medical assistants to better support providers can improve not only traditional outcomes but also job satisfaction.
HIPAA: Answers to Your Frequently Asked Questions
Does your organization interpret HIPAA too strictly, too loosely, or just right? Find out with these FAQs.
Is Your Diagnosis Coding Ready for Risk Adjustment?
As payment models change, diagnosis coding is more important than ever. Here's how to be sure your codes capture your patients' severity of illness.
Diagnosis Coding for Value-Based Payment: A Quick Reference Tool
Use this cheat sheet to identify diagnosis codes that are weighted for risk adjustment.
Encouraging Health Behavior Change: Eight Evidence-Based Strategies
Using these brief interventions, you can help your patients make healthy behavior changes.
SPPACES: Medical App Reviews
Five Mobile Apps to Help Patients With Anxiety and Depression
When patients need some assistance coping with mental distress, consider these apps.
From the Editor
It's Time to Go RAFing
What you don't know about risk-adjustment factor scores could cost you.
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
TIME SPENT ON CHRONIC CARE MANAGEMENT VS. TIME SPENT ON E/M SERVICES | ICD-10 CODING FOR BUG BITES | BILLING FOR PALLIATIVE CARE VISITS
Practice Pearls
PRACTICE PEARLS
BE MINDFUL OF THE JOY IN MEDICINE | RULE OUT HEART MURMURS MORE EFFECTIVELY IN CHILDREN | TAKE A LESSON FROM THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
The Last Word
Funded Educational Content
Helping Your Adolescent and Young Adult Patients Get the Preventive Care and Services They Need
The Adolescent Health Consortium Project has clarified clinical preventive service recommendations for adolescents and young adults.