Missed Coding and Billing Opportunities in Primary Care: Capturing the Value of Your Work

VINITA MAGOON

Family physicians can get paid for common services such as counseling and screenings. The key is recognizing them and knowing how to code them.

Facilitating Health Behavior Change: Easy as ABC

TIMOTHY D. RILEY, ADAM NEUFELD, GREGORY GULDNER

These simple strategies based on self-determination theory can help you maximize your patients’ motivation to change.

Physicians as Patients: Barriers to Primary Care Access Encountered by Physicians

URMI PATEL, BECKY LOWRY, MEGAN HILES

Regular access to primary care is key to health and well-being, even for physicians.

Remembering What It's Like to Be a Patient

JAMES DOMDERA

Understanding the patient experience, sometimes firsthand by being a patient, leads to greater empathy.

Four AI-Enhanced Mobile Apps to Assist Primary Care Physicians

DAVID REBEDEW

These apps can help you find evidence-based answers, generate prior authorization requests, create patient education materials, and more in seconds.

Coding & Documentation

CINDY HUGHES

TIME-BASED E/M CODING WITH SCRIBE | DIABETIC ULCER FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC INJURY | PROLONGED SERVICES IN ASSISTED LIVING | TCM RELATED SERVICES

Practice Pearls

Triage patients to the right clinician | Address patient poverty and financial stress as risk factors | Ask FPM: Stay up-to-date on clinical laboratory guidelines

Putting on Our Own Oxygen Masks First

COLLEEN T. FOGARTY, CHRISTINE M. LY

Practicing family medicine is busy, but subordinating our basic needs does not help us provide better care for our patients.

Using Advocacy and Powerful Tools to Increase Family Physician Compensation

KAREN JOHNSON, TRACEY ALLEN-EHRHART, ANGIE LANIGAN

The AAFP is fighting for increased payment and developing tools to help physicians achieve equitable compensation, make informed career decisions, and negotiate contracts.

Caring for Patients with CKD: Make Every Visit Count

LAURENA DONGMO FOTSING, MARY KREBS, JAY H. SHUBROOK

These screening and treatment recommendations are key to managing chronic kidney disease with timely interventions.

Preventing Hepatitis B Infection Through Vaccination

ANNE SCHNEIDER

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and the CDC updated their vaccination and screening recommendations in recent years to align with the goal of eliminating hepatitis B by 2030.

Food Allergy Point-of-Care Tool for Family Physicians

This AAFP developed tool can help physicians recognize, evaluate, and manage immunoglobulin E-mediated food allergy and prevent anaphylaxis.

Optimizing Practice Workflows to Successfully Implement Continuous Glucose Monitoring

SEAN M. OSER, TAMARA K. OSER, ANGELA M. LANIGAN, KAREN S. JOHNSON

Whether your practice is just starting out with CGM or looking to tackle hurdles in your existing CGM program, these four steps can help.

Clinical Guidance: Discussing COVID-19 Vaccinations With Your Patients

A recommendation from a health care professional is the strongest predictor of whether a patient will get vaccinated. Here’s a step-by-step guide for these conversations.