• FEATURES

    What's New in Medicare Preventive Benefits

    KENT J. MOORE

    The list of covered services has grown significantly in the last 10 years and includes some additions for 2007.

    Six Tips for Improving Practice Efficiency and Patient Satisfaction

    BETH G. HODGES

    When this practice's initial success began to fade, the physicians and staff had to rethink “business as usual.”

    How to Successfully Navigate Your EHR Implementation

    Kenneth G. Adler

    These clues can help you avoid the pitfalls you'll encounter on your EHR journey.

    Simple Strategies to Avoid Medication Errors

    Russell H. Jenkins, Allen J. Vaida

    Safe medication use is achievable and affordable if you follow these recommendations.

    FROM THE EDITOR

    Can Family Medicine Still Catalyze Social Change?

    Edsall Robert

    'Tis better to disrupt than be disrupted.

    OPINION

    Specialization in Family Medicine Education: Abandoning our Generalist Roots

    James Glazer

    If family medicine stops being “a specialty in breadth,” is it still family medicine?

    LETTERS

    The EHR debate rages on

    NEWS TRENDS

    NEWS & TRENDS

    Quality-based compensation may have limited use, suggests study | Health care spending still growing but slowing | Insurer suspends its physician rating system | Free e-prescribing program offered online | Report examines ‘better-performing’ groups | Aetna sets up personal...

    CODING & DOCUMENTATION

    CODING & DOCUMENTATION

    Cindy Hughes

    Documenting modifier -25 services | Coding for venipuncture | Medication refills | Coding for services in a residency program | Hospital discharge | Documentation shortcuts | Coding for diphenhydramine hydrochloride | Multiple nebulizer treatments

    PRACTICE PEARLS

    PRACTICE PEARLS

    Kristy Cowherd, Basil Rodansky

    Share freebies with employees | Manage your perfectionism | Offer criticism with care | Consider clinical trials | Be aware of your impact

    THE LAST WORD

    The Dreaded Request for Medical Records

    Sanford J. Brown

    Sometimes a patient's reasons for leaving aren't as bad as we might imagine.



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