Articles
Five Communication Strategies to Promote Self-Management of Chronic Illness
How you communicate with your patients can enhance – or inhibit – their ability to manage their chronic illnesses.
Immediate Action Protocol: A Tool to Help Your Practice Assess Suicidal Patients
If you've cared for patients with suicidal ideation, you'll know how valuable this tool can be.
What You Can Do to Help Your Uninsured Patients
Here's how to patients who might otherwise miss getting the services they need.
Offering Financial Assistance to Newly Uninsured Patients
With planning, you can be prepared to assess financial need, provide discounts and share helpful resources.
From the Editor
Preparing for Health Care Unreform
What do you think the odds are that you will have uninsured patients to care for next year?
Letters
Working with the “right people” and the “wrong people”
Working with the “right people” and the “wrong people”
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Home health services and private payers | Three-day observation stay | Documenting surgical assists | Prolonged services
Practice Pearls
PRACTICE PEARLS
Give cash-paying patients some cash back | Dress up your ceiling lights | Calculating average work RVUs for family physicians | Think like an athlete when assessing injuries
The Last Word
Are You Thinking Right?
Learning to challenge negative thoughts can vastly improve our lives.