2026 Medicare Payment and CPT Coding Update: Progress for Primary Care but Long-Term Fix Needed

ERIN SOLIS, KAREN JOHNSON, EMILY HILL

The amount Medicare pays per RVU gets its first substantial boost in years, but most of the increase will expire at the end of 2026 unless Congress acts.

Obtaining Hospital Privileges: A Guide for Procedural Family Physicians

JOHN CULLEN

Family physicians can overcome privileging obstacles by adopting the 10 strategies outlined here.

Using RN Co-Visits to Improve Access and Completion Rates for Medicare Annual Wellness Visits

JENNIFER CORLISS, REBECCA JOHNSON, TARYN ARBAYO, RACHEL RODRIGUEZ

Nurses can add annual wellness visits to existing appointments, helping practices improve preventive care and their quality metrics.

Straddling Dual Roles: The Family Physician as Clinical and Administrative Leader

MARK H. GREENAWALD, JASON E. MARKER

Navigating dual roles requires a deliberate set of tools and a strategy to build new leadership muscles.

The Secret Sauce to Avoiding Burnout

JAMES DOMDERA

Burnout is an organizational problem, not a personal failing, so shift your focus to this one thing.

Thank You, 2025 FPM Peer Reviewers

Quality peer reviews help the FPM editors select and publish articles that are accurate, authoritative, and useful to family physicians and others in primary care. We would like to thank the following peer reviewers, who completed at least one manuscript review in 2025.

Coding & Documentation

CINDY HUGHES

Visits for Excess Weight Only | Reporting Hyperglycemia with Prediabetes | Hypertensive Heart Disease with Cardiomegaly Counseling | Billing an Office Visit After TCM Denial

Practice Pearls

JASON MARKER, DANIELLE CARTER

Use Recent QI Projects to Meet Certification Requirements | Ask About Procedures When Job Hunting | Position Patients Properly for BP Measurement

The Do’s and Don’ts of Writing Effective Letters of Recommendation

TIMOTHY F. MOTT

Here’s how to make the process less drudgerous and help your letter stand out.

Advocating to Simplify Performance Measurement and Decrease Burden

AMANDA HOLT, JENNIFER WOODWARD

There are currently too many performance measures, the measurement process is inefficient and burdensome, and the measures do not always reflect the value of primary care or improve patient outcomes.