Articles
Understanding the Results of Randomized Controlled Trials: A Refresher
A few quick calculations can help you interpret and apply study results to improve patient care.
Enhancing Access and Payment Through Proper Use of Modifiers
Primary care physicians can get the revenue they deserve by properly using codes that indicate they provided multiple services in a single patient encounter.
Identifying and Responding to Highly Manipulative Patients
Despite our best efforts, not all patients will interact with us in a healthy manner. Here's what to look out for and how to manage the most manipulative behaviors.
Ready for Downtime: Preparing for Unexpected Internet and Power Outages
Cyberattacks and natural disasters can leave primary care clinics without power or access to key online systems. Here's how to keep operations going.
From the Editor
A Requiem for How Things Used to Be in Family Medicine
Mourning what we've lost is Act I, but that isn't how our masterpiece ends.
Opinion
Resuscitating Primary Care: A Triad of Patient, Clinician, and AI Coach
The answer to physician burnout and patient access could lie in using technology to augment the traditional doctor-patient relationship.
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Time-Based E/M Coding with Separate Procedure | New Diagnosis Codes to Support High-Risk Screening Pap Smears and Pelvic Exams | Health Care Cost-Sharing Programs | Suspected Wrist Fracture
Practice Pearls
PRACTICE PEARLS
Leverage Your EHR to Improve AWVs | Ask FPM:Procedure Proctoring and Privileging | Sublease Space to Other Clinicians
The Last Word
How to Start a Direct Primary Care Practice Right Out of Residency
Starting a DPC practice as a new doctor brings unique challenges, but none of them are insurmountable.
Funded Educational Content
Tools to Help Family Physicians Advocate for Privileging and Credentialing for Their Qualified Scope of Practice
Physicians should be granted privileges based on training, experience, and demonstrated current competence, regardless of specialty. Resources from the AAFP and ABFM can help.