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
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
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
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Dec 1, 2016 - The ICD-10 grace period has ended, so avoid using out-of-date and unspecified codes.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
How to Find Clinical Information Quickly at the Point of Care -- FPM
Jun 1, 2008 - You have one minute to identify the first-line therapy for a pregnant patient with tuberculosis. How will you find the answer?
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0600/p23.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
A Night at the Nursing Home -- FPM
May 1, 2008 - Sometimes, our patients give us gifts far greater than anything we've given them.
Family Practice Management : The Last Word
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0500/p46.html
Letters - May 2008 -- FPM
May 1, 2008 - ...are designed (by me) to present information logically where it can be easily read and acted upon. I choose new medications with minimal key strokes. Template notes are easy to follow. I'm reminded of routine health maintenance and disease management needs through pop-up reminders...
Family Practice Management : Letters
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0500/p11.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
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.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0100/p22.html
Virtual Office Visits: A Reachable and Reimbursable Innovation -- FPM
Oct 1, 2007 - They're convenient, they're efficient, and for a growing number of physicians, they pay.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2007/1000/p20.html
Helping Your Patients Avoid Counterfeit Medications -- FPM
Mar 1, 2007 - Four simple steps will help safeguard patients from this growing threat to their pocketbooks and their health.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2007/0300/p33.html
Improving Office Practice: Working Smarter, Not Harder -- FPM
Dec 1, 2006 - Seemingly simple strategies can transform your practice.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/1100/p28.html
Comfort Always -- FPM
Oct 1, 2006 - Our most important role as a physician is being a comforter to the sick.
Family Practice Management : The Last Word
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/1000/p74.html
Letters - Oct 2006 -- FPM
Oct 1, 2006 - ...rheumatica will send some of them to the Internet for information. There they can read that this disease can lead to blindness or a stroke, it may be associated with the condition giant cell arteritis that damages the arteries and there is no known cure...
Family Practice Management : Letters
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/1000/p16d.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
Letters - May 2004 -- FPM
May 1, 2004 - ...by patients. The Dec. 15, 2003, issue had a feature article on strategies for primary prevention of stroke. The article included a table on the effectiveness of various stroke prevention strategies that cited relative risk reductions (RRR), rather than the much more clinically...
Family Practice Management : Letters
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2004/0500/p21.html
Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Clinical Interventions -- FPM
Jan 1, 2004 - The article discusses the importance of engaging patients in cost-benefit discussions before deciding on their care plan. It also introduces several risk calculators (both paper and online versions) that physicians should become familiar with.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2004/0100/p53.html
Practice Diary - May 2003 -- FPM
May 1, 2003 - ...knew, with dread, what she was about to tell me: Oliver was dead at age 55. His doctors suspected he had died of either a heart attack or a stroke, and the memorial was set for the next Saturday. Would you like to speak at the service? Karen asked. Definitely, I said. A year...
Family Practice Management : Practice Diary
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2003/0500/p71.html
The Integrated Summary: A Documentation Tool to Improve Patient Care -- FPM
Apr 1, 2003 - This easy-to-use template enables you to see the full context of a patient’s health on a single page.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2003/0400/p33.html
Defining "Confined to the Home" -- FPM
Mar 1, 2003 - The author explains recent guidance from Medicare regarding how to determine whether a patient meets Medicare's definition of confined to the home (i.e., homebound).
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2003/0300/p20.html
Serving Up the Feedback Sandwich -- FPM
Dec 1, 2002 - Negative feedback is never easy to give, but sandwiching criticism between layers of praise makes it more palatable and more effective.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/1100/p43.html
Monitor - Nov 2002 -- FPM
Dec 1, 2002 - ...samplers for the prevention and treatment of acute myocardial infarction, breast cancer, diabetes, heart failure, pneumonia and stroke. Insurers underpaying docs Nearly one in five health care claims are underpaid by insurers, costing practices millions of dollars annually, reports...
Family Practice Management : News Briefs
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/1100/p31.html
Improving Anticoagulation Management at the Point of Care -- FPM
Feb 1, 2002 - Stop treating lab results. These easy-to-use devices return the focus of warfarin therapy to treating the patient.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/0200/p35.html
Test Your Coding Skills -- FPM
Feb 1, 2002 - Go head to head with our review panel in coding six troublesome progress notes.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/0200/p41.html
Getting Paid: Wrestling With the System -- FPM
Feb 1, 2002 - Argues that E/M coding is fundamentally unworkable as a way of determining charges because it functions in a system where incentives are not aligned.
Family Practice Management : Opinion
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/0200/p12.html
Worth While Web: 50 Useful Sites for Family Physicians -- FPM
Apr 1, 2001 - The World Wide Web can be a tremendous resource for you and your patients if you know where to look. Here's your guide.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2001/0400/p23.html
14 Alternative Practice Styles -- FPM
Feb 1, 2001 - Perhaps the road less traveled is the right career path for you. Here are more than a dozen ideas to get you started.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2001/0200/p33.html
Coding & Documentation - Jan 2001 -- FPM
Jan 1, 2001 - ...I was consulted to see a patient in the emergency department (ED) for an acute stroke and to admit him to the hospital. Upon the family’s request, the patient was transferred and admitted to another facility following my evaluation. What code should I submit? Would it be a code for...
Family Practice Management : Coding & Documentation
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2001/0100/p23.html
Practice Diary - May 2000 -- FPM
May 1, 2000 - ...a physician never wants to hear. Mrs. Thompson had called my house to say that her husband, Carl, had had a heart attack or possibly a stroke. An elderly man, Carl had been discharged from the hospital two weeks before after a bout of intractable nausea and vomiting that, for a...
Family Practice Management : Practice Diary
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2000/0500/p63.html
Helping Patients Take Charge of Their Chronic Illnesses -- FPM
Mar 1, 2000 - The best thing you can do for your patients with chronic diseases is to let them run with the ball.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2000/0300/p47.html
The Family Physician's Role in Reducing Medical Errors -- FPM
Feb 1, 2000 - The article will explain the kinds of medical errors that are common in medical practice and what physicians can do to improve patient safety.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2000/0200/p45.html
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