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Finger-stick blood glucose measurements provide a snapshot in time. Continuous glucose monitoring gives patients with diabetes a bigger picture.
Durable medical equipment helps patients live healthier, more independent lives. Here’s how to minimize the hassles of getting it to them.
Use this guide to up-front agenda setting to help you strike a balance between meeting complex patient needs and staying on time.
Paving the Path to Value: Care Management and Coordination
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Medicare claims may be delayed in April, as Congress mulls postponing cut
Medicare claims may be delayed as contractors hold them rather than process them with the 2% cut only to have to then reprocess them if the U.S. House of Representatives reverses the cut.
When and how to count data under the revised E/M office guidelines
When the new rules for evaluation and management office visits went into effect at the beginning of the year, they immediately caused confusion about how to count “data” to determine the level of medical decision making.
Primary Care First alternative payment model applications open, deadline in April
The Primary Care First model offers a multi-payer system for practices ready to take on more risk through payments based on utilization and outcomes.
COVID-19 lessons learned: one health system’s story
The pandemic has taught us the importance of compassionate leadership, communication, and transparency, among other lessons.
A sample workflow for transitional care management
Transitional care management can improve patient health outcomes, reduce the cost of care, and increase practice revenue. But getting started can be challenging if you don’t have a clear workflow in place.
Agenda setting: start visits this way, and they’re more likely to end on time
How do you keep patients from bringing up more concerns late in a visit and making it difficult for you to get to the next visit on schedule? Comprehensive agenda setting. Here’s how get started.
2021 E/M Coding Reference Card
Office visit evaluation and management (E/M) coding guidelines changed January 1, 2021. Ensure you receive accurate payment with the AAFP’s new E/M reference card.
Maintain Laboratory Excellence
AAFP’s Proficiency Testing Program (AAFP-PT) is a CMS-CLIA-approved comprehensive program with more than 25 years of laboratory experience. Order SARS-CoV2 Proficiency Tests through AAFP-PT.
Small Changes That Yield Big Results
Designed specifically for family medicine, AAFP TIPS resources make practice improvement faster and easier for you and your care team. Free to members.
Interested in Direct Primary Care?
Packed with easy-to-use resources, the DPC Toolkit makes the process of learning about or starting a DPC practice straightforward and enjoyable.
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