January/February 2019
Features
Protecting Adolescent Patient Privacy: Four Key Questions
Tools for Better Dementia Care
Using Empowered CMAs and Nursing Staff to Improve Team-based Care
The 2019 Medicare Documentation, Coding, and Payment Update
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.
Disclosure
All editors and editorial advisory board members in a position to control content for this activity, FPM journal, are required to disclose any relevant financial relationships. View disclosures.
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