Tobacco Cessation Telehealth Guide -- FPM
Dec 1, 2020 - Smoking cessation counseling and pharmacotherapy options are cost-effective ways to help patients quit smoking. Learn the role telehealth can play in your practice’s efforts, along with billing, coding, and documentation tips.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/1100/p13.html
Transitioning to Direct Primary Care -- FPM
Aug 1, 2020 - Imagine practicing medicine without all the administrative burdens related to billing insurance. Here’s how one physician made the switch.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/0700/p29.html
Diagnosis Coding for Value-Based Payment: A Quick Reference Tool -- FPM
Apr 1, 2018 - Use this cheat sheet to identify diagnosis codes that are weighted for risk adjustment.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0300/p26.html
Is Your Diagnosis Coding Ready for Risk Adjustment? -- FPM
Apr 1, 2018 - As payment models change, diagnosis coding is more important than ever. Here’s how to be sure your codes capture your patients’ severity of illness.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0300/p21.html
Quality Measures: How to Get Them Right -- FPM
Aug 1, 2018 - Pay-for-performance programs have produced disappointing results. Fewer and more appropriate, evidence-based quality measures could help.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0700/p23.html
Reducing Frustration and Increasing Fulfillment: Reframing -- FPM
Oct 1, 2017 - To better handle challenging patients or situations, try modifying the way you view them.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2017/0900/p12.html
Patient Attribution: Why It Matters More Than Ever -- FPM
Dec 1, 2016 - How payers assign patients to you will affect how your practice is evaluated and paid for value in the future.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/1100/p25.html
It’s Time for ICD-10 Changes -- FPM
Dec 1, 2016 - The ICD-10 grace period has ended, so avoid using out-of-date and unspecified codes.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/1100/p17.html
Improving Blood Pressure Control With Strategic Workflows -- FPM
Jun 1, 2016 - Setting a goal, identifying the right patients, and implementing team care can help bring hypertension under control.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/0500/p23.html
Does High Patient Satisfaction Mean High Quality of Care ? -- FPM
Jun 1, 2016 - Are they even related?
Family Practice Management : From the Editor
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/0500/p4.html
How to Help Your Patients Choose Wisely -- FPM
Aug 1, 2015 - Steer patients away from inappropriate and overused procedures that can diminish health care.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2015/0700/p28.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
Thinking on Paper: Documenting Decision Making -- FPM
Aug 1, 2010 - The third article in our series on Medicare's documentation guidelines will help you determine whether what's on your mind is what's on the patient's record.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2010/0700/p10.html
Coming Home -- FPM
Feb 1, 2013 - Even patients with specialized conditions such as sickle cell disease need primary care physicians.
Family Practice Management : Opinion
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2013/0100/p6.html
Letters - Nov-Dec 2012 -- FPM
Dec 1, 2012 - ...due to an increase in gastrointestinal hemorrhage and by women ages 55 to 64 years when the potential benefit due to a reduction in ischemic stroke outweighs the potential harm due to an increase in gastrointestinal hemorrhage. The corrected algorithm, includes A- and B-rated...
Family Practice Management : Letters
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2012/1100/p6c.html
Rethinking the Difficult Patient Encounter -- FPM
Aug 1, 2012 - Before you can help a difficult patient, you may need to change how you view that person.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2012/0700/p17.html
What You Need to Know When Called Upon to Be a Good Samaritan -- FPM
Apr 1, 2008 - Understanding your legal protections and ethical obligations can make it easier to respond when duty calls.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0400/p37.html
New payment model seeks to reduce cardiovascular disease -- FPM
New payment model seeks to reduce cardiovascular disease
Family Practice Management : Getting Paid : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/gettingpaid/entry/new_payment_model_seeks_to.html
How Health Care Reform Will Affect Family Physicians -- FPM
Jun 1, 2010 - The legislation isn't perfect, but it makes an important point - that primary care deserves more attention.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2010/0500/p14.html
An Open Letter to All the Health Plans That Keep Sending Me Letters -- FPM
Apr 1, 2010 - How helpful are all those letters you receive from health plans? Not very, says this family physician.
Family Practice Management : The Last Word
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2010/0300/p52.html
Five Communication Strategies to Promote Self-Management of Chronic Illness -- FPM
Oct 1, 2009 - How you communicate with your patients can enhance - or inhibit - their ability to manage their chronic illnesses.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2009/0900/p12.html
Coding From the Bottom Up -- FPM
Dec 1, 2008 - Start from the presenting problem to get to the right code faster.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/1100/p22.html
Coding "Routine" Office Visits: 99213 or 99214? -- FPM
Sep 1, 2005 - Before choosing 99213 for routine visits, consider whether your work qualifies for a 99214.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2005/0900/p52.html
A New Approach to Making Your Doctor-Nurse Team More Productive -- FPM
Aug 1, 2008 - With proper training and delegation, your team can see more patients, deliver better care and feel more satisfied at work.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0700/p35.html
The Art and Science of Clinical Decision Making -- FPM
May 1, 2008 - Thinking about how you make clinical decisions is the first step toward making better ones.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0500/p31.html
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