The 2021 Medicare Payment and CPT Coding Update -- FPM
Feb 1, 2021 - This year’s changes bode well for family physicians, with an expected increase in Medicare allowed charges.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2021/0100/oa1.html
Maternal Immunization Task Force for Pregnant Women: A Call to Action -- FPM
Oct 1, 2020 - ...on Immunization Practices recommends that women who are pregnant receive an inactivated influenza and a tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine in every pregnancy.1 The American Academy of Family Physicians; American College of Nurse-Midwives; American College of...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/0900/p5.html
Encounter Forms -- FPM Toolbox
May 4, 2020 - Download encounter forms to help ensure accurate documentation for asthma, diabetes, hypertension, and other conditions common in primary care.
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Scope of Practice: Reclaiming Young Patient Care -- FPM
Oct 1, 2019 - Caring for the whole family is a defining aspect of family medicine, yet many physicians have stopped seeing young patients. Here’s why and how to welcome them back.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2019/0900/p26.html
Coding and Billing Rules in 2016: Out With the Old, In With the New -- FPM
Feb 1, 2016 - Incident-to rules and advance care planning top the list of changes.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/0100/p14.html
Not all valid vaccine codes are in the book -- FPM
Not all valid vaccine codes are in the book
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https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/gettingpaid/entry/not_all_valid_vaccine_codes.html
Immunizations: How to Protect Patients and the Bottom Line -- FPM
Apr 1, 2015 - Minimizing costs and maximizing reimbursement can make immunizations profitable.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2015/0300/p24.html
Achieving Sustainable Increases in Childhood Immunization Rates -- FPM
Aug 1, 2014 - Analyzing and eliminating physical and procedural barriers to immunization allowed this practice to improve its performance.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2014/0700/p13.html
Resolving Patients' Vaccination Uncertainty: Going From "No Thanks!" to "Of Course!" --...
Apr 1, 2014 - Immunizations can help prevent disease breakouts but require being mindful of patient concerns and misconceptions.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2014/0300/p22.html
Practice Pearls - Jul-Aug 2013 -- FPM
Aug 1, 2013 - ...to administer tetanus boosters. It is the rare patient who remembers when he or she last had a tetanus booster, let alone if it included pertussis. Nearly everyone has a cell phone if not a smartphone, though, and is accustomed to using it to remember appointments, contacts, tasks,...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2013/0700/p32.html
How to Reduce Your Malpractice Risk -- FPM
Aug 1, 2012 - Recognizing warning signs and documenting with care are two keys.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2012/0700/p21.html
CPT Update for 2011: Immunizations, Observations and More -- FPM
Feb 1, 2011 - Changes include new codes for pediatric vaccine administration and subsequent hospital observation care.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2011/0100/p5.html
CPT 2009: Out With the Old, In With the New -- FPM
Feb 1, 2009 - A new injection code and newborn codes are among this year’s most notable CPT changes.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2009/0100/p7.html
Preventive Medicine: Giving Patients the Hard Sell -- FPM
Jan 1, 2008 - Your patients will be better off if you take a more active approach and consistently advocate for prevention.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0100/p22.html
CPT 2008: A Glimpse of the Future of Family Medicine? -- FPM
Jan 1, 2008 - This year's new codes cover evaluations done over the phone or online.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0100/p16.html
Coding Flu Shots: Immunize Against Lost Revenue -- FPM
Oct 1, 2007 - Make this hectic time of year a little smoother by reminding yourself and your staff how to code flu shots.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2007/1000/p35.html
Vaccine Administration: Making the Process More Efficient in Your Practice -- FPM
Mar 1, 2007 - Appointing a vaccine champion and understanding the documentation rules are key steps toward improving your immunization process.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2007/0300/p48.html
Coding & Documentation - Jan 2007 -- FPM
Jan 1, 2007 - ...The CPT code for a Tdap injection, which is a combination vaccine consisting of tetanus toxoid, diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccine, is 90715. To bill for the administration of the vaccine, use 90465-90466 or 90471-90472. You may report preventive services or other...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2007/0100/p18.html
The FPM Encounter Forms Collection: 'Paper Automation' of Your Progress Notes -- FPM
Sep 1, 2006 - Our forms can make documentation faster, easier and more accurate while providing decision support and coding help. What more do you want for nothing?
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0900/p63.html
How to Manage a Pertussis Outbreak in Your Practice -- FPM
Aug 1, 2005 - A physician shares the lessons he learned after unknowingly exposing patients and staff to whooping cough.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2005/0700/p31.html
How to Answer Your Clinical Questions More Efficiently -- FPM
Aug 1, 2005 - Asking focused questions and knowing where to look can lead to quicker answers.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2005/0700/p37.html
What Makes a High-Earning Family Physician? -- FPM
Aug 1, 2005 - The author reports the results of an AAFP survey of 730 members conducted to see what factors separated the high earners ($160,000 or more) from the low earners ($100,000 or less). The strongest influence was number of patient visits.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2005/0700/p16.html
New Year, New Codes: Highlights From CPT and HCPCS 2001 -- FPM
Jan 1, 2001 - Changes in critical care, care plan oversight, lab services and vaccines are most likely to affect family physicians.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2001/0100/p14.html
Monitor - Sep 1999 -- FPM
Sep 1, 1999 - ...Statements, produced by the CDC. The information sheets must be presented prior to each dose of vaccines containing diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, hepatitis B, haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) or varicella. The act also requires that providers...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/0900/p17.html
Are Your Patients Getting the Preventive Services They Need? -- FPM
Jan 1, 1999 - The article discusses the importance of preventive services and offers NCQA benchmarks. It also shows the process one practice used to identify its rates for mammograms, childhood immunizations and influenza vaccinations.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/0100/p56.html
How to Manage a Pertussis Outbreak in Your Practice -- Family Practice Management
...How to Manage a Pertussis Outbreak in Your Practice A physician shares the lessons he learned after unknowingly exposing patients and staff to whooping cough. Dr. Flanagan practices in State College, Pa., and is an associate professor of family and community medicine with the...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2005/0700/fpm20050700p31.pdf
Pertussis Encounter Form: Community Exposure
...l Review chart l Exposed individual notifies our office of a pertussis exposure in the community. l Exposure Info: By whom: __________________________ Where: ______________________ When: _____________________ Is the exposed individual our established patient? l No: Refer to...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2005/0700/fpm20050700p31-rt1.pdf
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...How to Manage a Pertussis Outbreak in Your Practice [Feature] A physician shares the lessons he learned after unknowingly exposing patients and staff to whooping cough. Jan 2005 Issue Preparing Your Office for a Medical Emergency [Feature] It needn't be expensive or...
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...How to Manage a Pertussis Outbreak in Your Practice [Feature] A physician shares the lessons he learned after unknowingly exposing patients and staff to whooping cough. Jan 2005 Issue Preparing Your Office for a Medical Emergency [Feature] It needn't be expensive or...
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...updates Jensen routine Knight macro LAST Moser Wonderful Willis fire patient Backer kids BAL Havron prioritize EDIT RLE July 2005 Flanagan pertussis IPC Ventres culture PAID Carter income Weinfeld EBM & Web BAL Frank admin COMP Oh PDA eval EDIT RLe June 2005 Endsley innovation...
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Jul-Aug 2005
...How to Manage a Pertussis Outbreak in Your Practice Michael Flanagan How to Answer Your Clinical Questions More Efficiently Jeff Weinfeld; Kate Finkelstein Caring for Children: Re-examining the Family Physician's Role Leigh Ann Backer Departments Editor's Page...
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FPM issues 2005
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Jul-Aug 2005
...How to Manage a Pertussis Outbreak in Your Practice Michael Flanagan How to Answer Your Clinical Questions More Efficiently Jeff Weinfeld; Kate Finkelstein Caring for Children: Re-examining the Family Physician's Role Leigh Ann Backer Departments Editor's Page...
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...How to Manage a Pertussis Outbreak in Your Practice [Feature] A physician shares the lessons he learned after unknowingly exposing patients and staff to whooping cough. Pages: 1 2 Next Advertisement FPM E-Newsletter Sign up to receive FPM's free, weekly e-newsletter,...
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...How to Manage a Pertussis Outbreak in Your Practice [Feature] A physician shares the lessons he learned after unknowingly exposing patients and staff to whooping cough. Pages: 1 2 Next Advertisement FPM E-Newsletter Sign up to receive FPM's free, weekly e-newsletter,...
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Maternal Immunization Task Force for Pregnant Women: A Call to Action
...on Immunization Practices recommends that women who are pregnant receive an inactivated influenza and a tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine in every pregnancy.1 The American Academy of Family Physicians; American College of Nurse-Midwives; American College of...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/0900/fpm20200900p5.pdf
CPT Update for 2011: Immunizations, Observations and More
...pertussis (DTaP) Measles-mumps- rubella (MMR) Tetanus-diphtheria- pertussis (Tdap) Measles-mumps- rubella-varicella (MMR-V) Diphtheria-tetanus- pertussis, hepatitis B, inactivated poliovirus (DTaP- HepB-IPV) Diptheria- tetanus-pertussis, Hemophilus influenza type B,...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2011/0100/fpm20110100p5.pdf
fpm20080100p22.pdf
...needs the new tetanus/ pertussis combo booster, you might describe the importance of protecting adolescents from waning immunity. But if the patient also has a newborn sibling at home, you can make your spiel more effective by pointing out that pertussis in a newborn would be a...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0100/fpm20080100p22.pdf
fpm20140300p22.pdf
...Clergy and other respected members of society are often influential. While discussing whooping cough and the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis) vaccine with a minister of a large church in Chicago, Dr. Brown asked him if he was often near young children. He shared that...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2014/0300/fpm20140300p22.pdf
fpm20150300p24.pdf
...mumps, and rubella). If you administer a DTaP/IPV vac- cine (Kinrix) you may bill for four components (diphthe- ria, tetanus, pertussis, and polio). Let’s see how this works in real life. In my practice, our largest payer reimburses around $50 for administer- ing the first...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2015/0300/fpm20150300p24.pdf
Family Practice Management
...Code 90696 has been established to report an FDA- approved, combination vaccine to protect against diph- theria, tetanus, pertussis and poliomyelitis (DTaP-IPV) in a single injection (Kinrix). This vaccine is intended to be administered as a booster dose to healthy children four...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2009/0100/fpm20090100p7.pdf
Adolescent Vaccination: Protect Their Future
...• Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTap) • Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) • Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) • Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) • Flu - inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV); live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) • Measles, mumps, and...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2019/0700/fpm20190700p9.pdf
fpm20060100p28-rt1.pdf
...90715 Tetanus, diphtheria toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap), for use in individuals 7 years or older, for intramuscular use Medicine: Special Services 99050 Services provided in the office at times other than regularly scheduled office hours, or days when the...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0100/fpm20060100p28-rt1.pdf
fpm20060900p63.pdf
...Pertussis exposure PDF Pulmonary embolism* PDF Sore throat* PDF Upper respiratory infection PDF, Word Forms appropriate to various visit types common skin procedures** PDF evaluation and management services** PDF Home visit PDF, Word Nursing home group visit...
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fpm20070300p48.pdf
...a wider range of immunizations, not only for our youngest patients but also for adolescents and adults (e.g., human papilloma virus, pertussis, meningococcus and herpes zos- ter vaccines). While patients can receive vaccinations from a variety of sources, offering them within the...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2007/0300/fpm20070300p48.pdf
fpm20071000p35.pdf
...• 90715 tetanus, diphtheria toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine (tdap), age ≥ 7 years, for intramuscular use. diagnosis codes linked to these services would be v04.81 for the influenza vaccination and v06.1 for the tdap vaccination. alone. The ICD-9 code for pneumococcus...
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fpm20080100p16-rt1.pdf
...90696 Diphtheria, tetanus toxoids, acellular pertussis vaccine and poliovirus vaccine, inactivated (DTaP-IPV), when administered to children 4 years through 6 years of age, for intramuscular use Other Medicine Services and Procedures 99174 Ocular photoscreening with...
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...• 90696 Diphtheria, tetanus toxoids, acel- lular pertussis vaccine and poliovirus vaccine, inactivated (DTaP-IPV), when administered Two codes were added to report tobacco cessation counseling. Time-based billing is now an option for some nursing home visits....
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...0038 Title: Childhood Immunization Status Description: Percentage of children 2 years of age who had four diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis (DTaP); three polio(IPV), one measles, ,mumps and rubella (MMR); two H influenza type B (HiB); three hepatitis B (Hep B); one chicken...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2010/0900/fpm20100900p17-rt1.pdf
fpm20120700p21.pdf
...DPT diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus Demerol-Phenergan-Thorazine HCT hydrocortisone hydrochlorothiazide MgS04 magnesium sulfate morphine sulfate 5-ASA 5-aminosalicylic acid five tablets of aspirin Dosing o.d. or od once daily right eye t.i.w. or tiw three times a week...
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