Articles
Missed Coding and Billing Opportunities in Primary Care: Capturing the Value of Your Work
Family physicians can get paid for common services such as counseling and screenings. The key is recognizing them and knowing how to code them.
Facilitating Health Behavior Change: Easy as ABC
These simple strategies based on self-determination theory can help you maximize your patients’ motivation to change.
Physicians as Patients: Barriers to Primary Care Access Encountered by Physicians
Regular access to primary care is key to health and well-being, even for physicians.
Putting on Our Own Oxygen Masks First
Practicing family medicine is busy, but subordinating our basic needs does not help us provide better care for our patients.
From the Editor
Remembering What It's Like to Be a Patient
Understanding the patient experience, sometimes firsthand by being a patient, leads to greater empathy.
SPPACES: Medical App Reviews
Four AI-Enhanced Mobile Apps to Assist Primary Care Physicians
These apps can help you find evidence-based answers, generate prior authorization requests, create patient education materials, and more in seconds.
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
TIME-BASED E/M CODING WITH SCRIBE | DIABETIC ULCER FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC INJURY | PROLONGED SERVICES IN ASSISTED LIVING | TCM RELATED SERVICES
Practice Pearls
PRACTICE PEARLS
Triage patients to the right clinician | Address patient poverty and financial stress as risk factors | Ask FPM: Stay up-to-date on clinical laboratory guidelines
Funded Educational Content
Using Advocacy and Powerful Tools to Increase Family Physician Compensation
The AAFP is fighting for increased payment and developing tools to help physicians achieve equitable compensation, make informed career decisions, and negotiate contracts.
Caring for Patients with CKD: Make Every Visit Count
These screening and treatment recommendations are key to managing chronic kidney disease with timely interventions.
Preventing Hepatitis B Infection Through Vaccination
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and the CDC updated their vaccination and screening recommendations in recent years to align with the goal of eliminating hepatitis B by 2030.
Food Allergy Point-of-Care Tool for Family Physicians
This AAFP developed tool can help physicians recognize, evaluate, and manage immunoglobulin E-mediated food allergy and prevent anaphylaxis.
Optimizing Practice Workflows to Successfully Implement Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Whether your practice is just starting out with CGM or looking to tackle hurdles in your existing CGM program, these four steps can help.
Clinical Guidance: Discussing COVID-19 Vaccinations With Your Patients
A recommendation from a health care professional is the strongest predictor of whether a patient will get vaccinated. Here’s a step-by-step guide for these conversations.