January/February 2019

Features

Protecting Adolescent Patient Privacy: Four Key Questions

Richelle Marting

Tools for Better Dementia Care

Brian K. Unwin; Natalia Loskutova; Patrick Knicely; Christopher D. Wood

Using Empowered CMAs and Nursing Staff to Improve Team-based Care

James Jerzak

The 2019 Medicare Documentation, Coding, and Payment Update

Kent J. Moore; Amy Mullins; Erin Solis; Barbara Hays

Departments

From the Editor

Changes of Note for the New Year
Leigh Ann Backer

Thank You, FPM Peer Reviewers (2018)

Practice Pearls

• Simplify the checkout process • Ensure your safety during patient visits • Keep your empathy for difficult patients

Coding & Documentation

• Prescription drug management and E/M code selection • Review of systems: How many systems are too many? • Documenting exams by medical students • Coding for removal of skin lesions: biopsy or no?

The Last Word

High-Maintenance Patients
Sanford J. Brown

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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