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What's New in Medicare Preventive Benefits

KENT J. MOORE

The list of covered services has grown significantly in the last 10 years and includes some additions for 2007.

Six Tips for Improving Practice Efficiency and Patient Satisfaction

BETH G. HODGES

When this practice's initial success began to fade, the physicians and staff had to rethink “business as usual.”

How to Successfully Navigate Your EHR Implementation

Kenneth G. Adler

These clues can help you avoid the pitfalls you'll encounter on your EHR journey.

Simple Strategies to Avoid Medication Errors

Russell H. Jenkins, Allen J. Vaida

Safe medication use is achievable and affordable if you follow these recommendations.

FROM THE EDITOR

Can Family Medicine Still Catalyze Social Change?

Edsall Robert

'Tis better to disrupt than be disrupted.

OPINION

Specialization in Family Medicine Education: Abandoning our Generalist Roots

James Glazer

If family medicine stops being “a specialty in breadth,” is it still family medicine?

LETTERS

The EHR debate rages on

NEWS TRENDS

NEWS & TRENDS

Quality-based compensation may have limited use, suggests study | Health care spending still growing but slowing | Insurer suspends its physician rating system | Free e-prescribing program offered online | Report examines ‘better-performing’ groups | Aetna sets up personal...

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Cindy Hughes

Documenting modifier -25 services | Coding for venipuncture | Medication refills | Coding for services in a residency program | Hospital discharge | Documentation shortcuts | Coding for diphenhydramine hydrochloride | Multiple nebulizer treatments

PRACTICE PEARLS

PRACTICE PEARLS

Kristy Cowherd, Basil Rodansky

Share freebies with employees | Manage your perfectionism | Offer criticism with care | Consider clinical trials | Be aware of your impact

THE LAST WORD

The Dreaded Request for Medical Records

Sanford J. Brown

Sometimes a patient's reasons for leaving aren't as bad as we might imagine.



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All editors and editorial advisory board members in a position to control content for this activity, FPM journal, are required to disclose any relevant financial relationships. View disclosures.



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