This year, the top 10 articles published in FPM were focused on improving efficiency, payment, and patient care. Changes to the hierarchical condition category (HCC) system that will affect some payments topped the list, while more efficient patient message management was a hot topic for the second year in a row. Here's what made the list:
1. What Family Physicians Need to Know About the Wave of 2024 HCC Changes
2. Using a Nurse Triage Model to Address Patient Messages
4. Understanding and Improving Your Work RVUs
5. The Weight-Prioritized Visit: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
6. Clinical Workflow Efficiencies to Alleviate Physician Burnout and Reduce Work After Clinic
7. Patient-Centered Hypertension Management: Two Team-Based Models
8. The 2023 CPT Coding and Medicare Payment Update
9. A Dashboard for Problem-Solving Patient Access and Physician Staffing Issues
10. Good Grief: The Art of Healing Ourselves From Personal or Professional Loss
This list is based on article ratings from readers who have taken the FPM CME Quiz. AAFP members and FPM subscribers can earn 30 credits for the 2023 issues.
Posted on Dec 15, 2023 by FPM Editors
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