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CPT 2008: A Glimpse of the Future of Family Medicine?

Cindy Hughes

This year's new codes cover evaluations done over the phone or online.

Preventive Medicine: Giving Patients the Hard Sell

Linwood W. Watson

Your patients will be better off if you take a more active approach and consistently advocate for prevention.

Transforming Your Practice: What Matters Most

Katherine Gottlieb, Ileen Sylvester, Douglas Eby

When customers drive the system, it changes everything – for the better.

FROM THE EDITOR

The Snake on the Torch

Robert Edsall

The Academy's new symbol gives it a lot to live up to.

OPINION

Does Primary Care Need Medicare?

Douglas Iliff

Its payment system undervalues primary care, and its regulations include jail time for physicians' mistakes. What's not to love?

LETTERS

Home sweet medical home

Roger K. Howe

NEWS TRENDS

NEWS & TRENDS

Congress delays potential cuts in Medicare pay for six months | ACP backs single-payer system | Study examines doctors' professionalism | United Healthcare paying attention to image

PRACTICE PEARLS

PRACTICE PEARLS

Beth Sullivan, J.G. Goddard, Pamela Wible

Find formulary information quickly online | Remember the power of “we” | Let the EOB substitute for a bill | Create a partnership between billing and front-desk employees | Ease children's fear of exams

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Cindy Hughes

Diagnosis codes for PPD test | Comparing E/M code usage | Denials for injury codes | Requirements for 99374 | Coding for cosmetic procedures | Medicaid and G codes | Instructions for inhaler use

THE LAST WORD

Doing What Has Always Worked

Sanford J. Brown

Progress is never free, and it isn't all it's cracked up to be.



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