JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2024

These insider tips can save you time by putting your imaging requests on the path to easier approval.

Maladaptive responses to stressors are ingrained in our profession, but we can unlearn them and embrace a culture of well-being.

Your professional, well-documented assessment of a patient’s functional limitations is key to a successful disability determination.

Despite annual threats to Medicare’s physician payment rate, primary care physicians will benefit from the implementation of a new code for visit complexity, among other key changes.

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 2023.

Skilled primary care physicians spend an inordinate amount of time doing mundane tasks. Why?

SHOWING MEDICAL NECESSITY IN E/M CODING | PAYERS REDUCING E/M CODES | SERVICES PROVIDED ON FEDERAL HOLIDAYS | COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT AND CARE PLAN ON SAME DATE AS E/M

ADDRESS PREVENTIVE CARE GAPS AT ACUTE VISITS | EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN USING AI TOOLS LIKE CHATGPT | OVER-RECRUIT PATIENTS FOR SHARED MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS

Book clubs can help teams build rapport and empathize better with colleagues and patients.

To achieve the goals of a high-performing health system, including equitable access to care, the American Academy of Family Physicians' public and private advocacy efforts center around protecting and increasing primary care investment across the United States.

This supplement discusses the potential utility of CGM in diabetes management, the updated Medicare coverage criteria, the CGM systems cleared by the FDA, and key steps and challenges in prescribing CGM.