Smoking cessation counseling and pharmacotherapy options are cost-effective ways to help patients quit smoking. Learn the role telehealth can play in your practice’s efforts, along with billing, coding, and documentation tips. 11/20
Understand the basics of risk adjustment and how it is used in value-based payment (VBP) arrangements. Learn strategies to thrive in VBP and risk-adjustment models to optimize payment while providing high-quality patient care. 11/20
Incorporating alcohol screening and brief intervention benefits your patients and family medicine practice. Follow these steps to reduce risky alcohol use by choosing a screening test, establishing a practice workflow, and appropriately coding and billing. 11/20
The current increase in vaccine hesitancy calls for an urgent commitment to discuss the evidence-based benefits of vaccination with pregnant women. 9/20
Understand attribution and alignment methodologies in value-based payment arrangements to know which patients are assigned to you. Use empanelment and risk stratification to better understand where to expend your practice's care management and care coordination resources. 9/20
Public and private payers are transitioning away from fee-for-service and emphasizing value-based payment models. This supplement from the American Academy of Family Physicians describes what you need to know about the transition and how it may affect you and your practice. 7/20
This supplement from the American Academy of Family Physicians shares learnings from state chapter quality improvement initiatives designed to increase adult pneumococcal vaccination rates. 7/20
Use this checklist to assess your practice's readiness to participate in this new payment model from Medicare. 1/20
Strategies to improve your adolescent patients' immunizations. 7/19
Here's what you need to know to increase the influenza vaccination rate in your practice. 5/19
Find out how your practice's Quality Payment Program strategy will impact you. 5/18
The Adolescent Health Consortium Project has clarified clinical preventive service recommendations for adolescents and young adults. 3/18
You can get paid for advance care planning while satisfying a high-priority quality measure for MACRA. 1/18
This supplement provides examples of how the components of TCM services overlap with a variety of MIPS reporting measures. 11/17
Learn how to optimize revenue today by using this step-by-step approach to add chronic care management to your practice. 7/17
Learn how to optimize revenue today while improving Medicare quality and cost. 1/17
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This important self-management support strategy can produce quality outcomes for your patients and your practice. 5/13
Used in combination with traditional medical treatment, health coaching can help improve outcomes by getting patients more involvedd in their own health. 5/13