Preparing for Value-Based Payment: Five Essential Skills for Success -- FPM
Jun 1, 2017 - As physician payment increasingly becomes tied to value, these five habits can help you succeed.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2017/0500/p25.html
Communicating Risks: Let's Talk Numeracy -- FPM
Dec 1, 2018 - Understanding numeracy will make your risk conversations with patients more effective.
Family Practice Management : From the Editor
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/1100/p4.html
Five Lessons for Working With a Scribe -- FPM
Aug 1, 2016 - Documentation personnel can free up physicians during visits to do what we do best.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/0700/p23.html
The secret to getting a 10 percent Medicare bonus in 2011 -- FPM
The secret to getting a 10 percent Medicare bonus in 2011
Family Practice Management : Getting Paid : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/gettingpaid/entry/are_you_banking_on_the.html
Evaluating Physician Employment Contracts: How Do Your Benefits Measure Up? -- FPM
Oct 1, 2017 - From signing bonuses to relocation and continuing education allowances, your employment contract needs to provide more than a competitive salary.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2017/0900/p9.html
The 12-Step Way to Reduce Practice Expenses: Part 1, Staffing Efficiencies -- FPM
Apr 1, 2010 - Staff-related expenses consume the largest portion of your overhead, so that's where this 12-month plan begins.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2010/0300/p38.html
The Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative: What You Need to Know -- FPM
Feb 1, 2012 - A promising new multipayer demonstration project led by Medicare brings a blended payment model closer to reality.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2012/0100/p12.html
Establishing and Protecting Your Online Reputation -- FPM
Dec 1, 2015 - Proactively building a positive Internet presence for your practice can blunt the effect of a few bad reviews.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2015/1100/p29.html
Controlling Hypertension: Focusing on "Why" Makes "How" a Lot Easier -- FPM
Oct 1, 2014 - Understanding the power of quality data and then starting with a few specific measures leads to improved blood pressure rates.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2014/0900/p23.html
What Can a PA or NP Do for Your Practice? -- FPM
Apr 1, 2017 - If your workload is no longer sustainable, it may be time to consider adding a certified physician assistant or nurse practitioner to your practice.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2017/0300/p19.html
Removing Six Key Barriers to Online Portal Use -- FPM
Feb 1, 2015 - Portals can benefit your practice and your patients, but you have to get them using the technology first.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2015/0100/p26.html
Practice Pearls - Jul-Aug 2019 -- FPM
Aug 1, 2019 - Reduce time spent doing other physicians’ paperwork | Send preventive service reminders according to birth months | Help put patients at ease during visits | Identify patients’ unmet social needs to facilitate referrals
Family Practice Management : Practice Pearls
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2019/0700/p35.html
Optimizing the Role of Nursing Staff to Enhance Physician Productivity: One Physician's...
Aug 1, 2013 - When capable nurses are given greater responsibility for each patient encounter, good results follow.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2013/0700/p18.html
Five Mobile Apps for Mindfulness -- FPM
Jun 1, 2018 - Recommend these apps for patients interested in incorporating mindfulness into their care plan.
Family Practice Management : SPPACES: App Reviews
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0500/p21.html
Practice Pearls - May-Jun 2019 -- FPM
Jun 1, 2019 - Create annual visit plans for your patients | Use your EHR to close care gaps | Use passwords to practice mindfulness
Family Practice Management : Practice Pearls
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2019/0500/p32.html
Improving Daily Practice With Four Medical Apps -- FPM
Apr 1, 2017 - These mobile apps can help physicians and patients with treatment recommendations, treatment adherence, and smoking cessation.
Family Practice Management : SPPACES: App Reviews
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2017/0300/p27.html
Dealing with the opportunities and threats of the new Medicare data release -- FPM
Dealing with the opportunities and threats of the new Medicare data release
Family Practice Management : Getting Paid : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/gettingpaid/entry/dealing_with_the_opportunities_and.html
The Match and the Future of Family Medicine -- FPM
Apr 1, 2005 - Argues that the depressing Match results suggest the future of family medicine unless all of family medicine can get behind the FFM initiative.
Family Practice Management : Opinion
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2005/0400/p8.html
HIPAA Again: Confronting the Updated Privacy and Security Rules -- FPM
Jun 1, 2013 - New regulations will require practices to revisit and adapt their privacy policies.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2013/0500/p18.html
Cardiac Risk Assessment -- FPM
Oct 1, 2014 - The Cardiac Risk Assist app allows health care professionals to calculate 10-year and lifetime risks for atherosclerotic cardiovascular (CV) disease.
Family Practice Management : SPPACES: App Reviews
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2014/0900/p32.html
In Defense of Direct Primary Care -- FPM
Oct 1, 2016 - Direct primary care will continue to grow because it empowers price transparency, quality, and patient satisfaction.
Family Practice Management : Opinion
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/0900/p12.html
VisualDx -- FPM
Feb 1, 2015 - VisualDx is a decision support and clinical reference tool focused on skin diseases. It allows health care professionals to make dermatological differential diagnoses based on patient-specific findings, review medication-induced adverse effects, and search for specific diagnoses to ...
Family Practice Management : SPPACES: App Reviews
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2015/0100/p33.html
Making Sense of MACRA, Part 2: Value-Based Payment and Your Future -- FPM
Feb 1, 2017 - Your performance this year will affect your Medicare payment in 2019.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2017/0100/p12.html
Rebuilding Family Medicine From the Foundation Up -- FPM
Oct 1, 2007 - The mere fact that we talk about access to care is a sign of serious illness in the health care system.
Family Practice Management : Opinion
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2007/1000/p9.html
Panel Size: How Many Patients Can One Doctor Manage? -- FPM
Apr 1, 2007 - There are limits to the number of patients you can effectively care for. Here's how to determine that number, improve patient access and better manage your workload.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2007/0400/p44.html