Breaking Even on Four Visits Per Day -- FPM
Jun 1, 2007 - Spurning health plan contracts enabled this practice to dramatically reduce overhead and fees while improving access for the uninsured.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2007/0600/p19.html
News & Trends - Jun 2006 -- FPM
Jun 1, 2006 - ...Is Direct Primary Care the Solution to Our Health Care Crisis? Fighting for Hospital Privileges The 2020 Medicare Documentation, Coding, and Payment Update Editor's Collections Coding Related Topic Searches Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Procedure coding,...
Family Practice Management : News Briefs
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0600/p25.html
Letters - May 2006 -- FPM
May 1, 2006 - ...Direct Primary Care Physician Burnout & Work-Life Balance Career Options Related Topic Searches Cash-only practice Locum tenens practice Job satisfaction MOST RECENT ISSUE Jan-Feb 2021 Access the latest issue of FPM journal Read the Issue FPM E-Newsletter...
Family Practice Management : Letters
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0500/p25b.html
Coding & Documentation - Apr 2006 -- FPM
Apr 1, 2006 - ...This code is for case management services that require the physician to be responsible for direct care of the patient. It also requires that the physician coordinate or supervise other health care services needed by the patient. For example, some Medicaid carriers accept this code...
Family Practice Management : Coding & Documentation
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0400/p31.html
Letters - Apr 2006 -- FPM
Apr 1, 2006 - ...Is Direct Primary Care the Solution to Our Health Care Crisis? In Defense of Direct Primary Care Editor's Collections Billing & Claims Working With Insurers Direct Primary Care Career Options Related Topic Searches Cash-only practice Health plans, general...
Family Practice Management : Letters
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0400/p23.html
Cash-Only Practice: Could It Work for You? -- FPM
Feb 1, 2006 - The cash-only model involves some risk, but it can also bring many rewards.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0200/p61.html
Cashing in on House Calls -- FPM
Feb 1, 2006 - A cash-only, house call practice enabled this physician to earn more while spending less.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0200/p67.html
2,500 Cash-Paying Patients and Growing -- FPM
Feb 1, 2006 - This physician is expanding his cash-only practice to keep up with demand.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0200/p64.html
A New Future With an Old Business Model -- FPM
Feb 1, 2006 - Turning away third-party payers and requiring payment at the time of service restored this family physician's practice.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0200/p74.html
First-Party Payers: Should You Cut Out the Middle Plan? -- FPM
Feb 1, 2006 - How much of the world can you set right simply by asking your patients to pay for their care?
Family Practice Management : From the Editor
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0200/p14.html
Making Decisions with Families at the End of Life - American Family Physician
Aug 15, 2004 - Because advance directives are not yet the norm, end-of-life decisions for patients without medical decision-making capacity are made regularly within discussions between the patient's physician and family. Communication and decision making in these situations require a complex ...
American Family Physician : Article
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2004/0815/p719.html
Why Does a U.S. Primary Care Physician Workforce Crisis Matter? - Editorials - American...
Aug 1, 2004 - ...in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, where she directs the Primary Care Policy Center. Address correspondence to Robert L. Phillips, Jr., M.D., M.S.P.H., The Robert Graham Center, 1350 Connecticut...
American Family Physician : Editorials
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2004/0801/p440.html
Why Does a U.S. Primary Care Physician Workforce Crisis Matter? - Editorials - American...
Oct 15, 2003 - ...in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, where she directs the Primary Care Policy Center. Address correspondence to Robert L. Phillips, Jr., M.D., M.S.P.H., The Robert Graham Center, 1350 Connecticut...
American Family Physician : Editorials
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/1015/p1494.html
Ask FPM - Jul 2003 -- FPM
Aug 1, 2003 - ...Is Direct Primary Care the Solution to Our Health Care Crisis? Managing the Habitual No-Show Patient Going Solo: Making the Leap Editor's Collections Independent and Solo Practice Direct Primary Care Rural Practice Career Options Related Topic Searches Call...
Family Practice Management : Q&As
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2003/0700/p74.html
ACIP Issues Guidelines on the Use of Smallpox Vaccine in a Pre-Event Vaccination ...
Aug 1, 2003 - Recommendations for the use of smallpox vaccine in a pre-event vaccination program are now available from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC), and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC).
American Family Physician : Practice Guidelines
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0801/p554.html
Letters - Feb 2003 -- FPM
Feb 1, 2003 - ...Transitioning to Direct Primary Care How to Be Happy in Practice for 30-Plus Years Is Direct Primary Care the Solution to Our Health Care Crisis? Editor's Collections Independent and Solo Practice Career Options Related Topic Searches Independent practice MOST...
Family Practice Management : Letters
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2003/0200/p14c.html
The Elephant in the Room -- FPM
Oct 1, 2002 - Complains that boutique medicine gets undeserved attention while truly important issues such as health care for all go undiscussed.
Family Practice Management : Opinion
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/1000/p15.html
Strategies for Better Patient Flow and Cycle Time -- FPM
Jun 1, 2002 - These tried-and-true techniques will increase revenue, reduce expenses and improve satisfaction with your practice.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/0600/p45.html
Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infections - American Family Physician
Mar 15, 2002 - Neonatal herpes simplex virus infections can result in serious morbidity and mortality. Many of the infections result from asymptomatic cervical shedding of virus after a primary episode of genital HSV in the third trimester. Antibodies to HSV-2 have been detected in approximately 20 ...
American Family Physician : Article
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/0315/p1138.html
Ask FPM - Jun 2001 -- FPM
Jun 1, 2001 - ...that all requirements of the rule are satisfied. Two requirements relevant to your question are that the teaching physician must direct the care of no more than four residents at a time and must have no other responsibilities at the time of the service for which payment is sought....
Family Practice Management : Q&As
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2001/0600/p52.html
A Model for Successful Rural Practice -- FPM
Mar 1, 2000 - This community-supported practice meets the needs of both the community and the physicians serving it.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2000/0300/p41.html
Somatizing Patients: Part I. Practical Diagnosis - American Family Physician
Feb 15, 2000 - The phenomenon of somatization, which results in unexplained physical complaints, is ubiquitous in primary care settings although it often goes unrecognized. Medical training emphasizes the identification and treatment of organic problems and may leave physicians unprepared to recognize...
American Family Physician : Article
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2000/0215/p1073.html
Re-engineering a Family Practice Center -- FPM
Sep 1, 1999 - The authors' success can be a lesson to physician groups as well as residency clinics.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/0900/p36.html
Elder Mistreatment - American Family Physician
May 15, 1999 - Elder mistreatment is a widespread problem in our society that is often under-recognized by physicians. As a result of growing public outcry over the past 20 years, all states now have abuse laws that are specific to older adults; most states have mandated reporting by all health care ...
American Family Physician : Article
https://www.aafp.org/afp/1999/0515/p2804.html
School Problems and the Family Physician - American Family Physician
May 15, 1999 - Children with school problems pose a challenge for the family physician. A multidisciplinary team of professionals can most appropriately assess and manage complex learning problems, which are often the cause of poor school performance. The family physician's primary role in this ...
American Family Physician : Article
https://www.aafp.org/afp/1999/0515/p2816.html