Articles
A Practical Approach to Reducing Patients' Prescription Costs
A single screening question and an arsenal of cost-reducing strategies can help you help your patients afford their medications.
Seven Habits for Reducing Work After Clinic
Imagine shutting your office door at the end of the day and not having any work that you need to take home. These shifts in practice can help you reclaim your time.
Risk Stratification: A Two-Step Process for Identifying Your Sickest Patients
Assessing the health risk of your patients can yield improvements in efficiency and use of resources.
Transitional Care Management: Practical Processes for Your Practice
Helping patients safely bridge the gap from acute care to ambulatory care is good for patients and practices too.
From the Editor
Rethinking Roles: Your Colleagues' and Your Own
How can you foster teamwork when you aren't “the boss”?
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
SAME-DAY RETURN VISIT | MODIFIER FOR INCIDENT-TO SERVICES | INPATIENT CARE BILLING BY TEACHING PHYSICIAN | BIOPSY OF THE OUTER EAR | MULTIPLE X-RAYS
Practice Pearls
PRACTICE PEARLS
CREATE ANNUAL VISIT PLANS FOR YOUR PATIENTS | USE YOUR EHR TO CLOSE CARE GAPS | USE PASSWORDS TO PRACTICE MINDFULNESS
The Last Word
A New Lexicon for Physicians: A Poem for Physicians Who Care
What if EHRs, MIPS, and MACRA all stood for something else — something truly meaningful?
Funded Educational Content
Improving Vaccination Rates for the 2018-2019 Influenza Season
This organizational supplement summarizes information and resources the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) develops, utilizes, and disseminates to family physicians and their health care teams to increase influenza vaccination rates.