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How to Say Goodbye to Medicare

Kent J. Moore

With another payment cut looming, opting out of Medicare may be worth considering.

How to See Your Practice Through Your Patients' Eyes

Elizabeth E. Stewart, Marly McMillen

It's as simple as entering through the front door and taking a walk around your practice.

FROM THE EDITOR OPINION

A Multiple-Service Rule for E/M Services

Nancy E.B. Ness

A simple rule change could improve access and quality of care while reducing inequities between compensation for E/M services and for procedures.

LETTERS

Tracking follow-up care

Michael S. Victoroff

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Coding & Documentation

Cindy Hughes

Diagnosis code order | When a review of systems isn't possible | New patient definition | Critical care and site of service

PRACTICE PEARLS

Practice Pearls

Rich Sagall, Brett Robinson, Gail Jones AAFP, Christopher Campanile, Michael Fine, R.I. Pawtucket

Test your telephone service | Print Medicaid prescriptions on low-cost paper | Completing FMLA paperwork for patients’ family members | Use software to track chronic disease follow-up

THE LAST WORD

How to Deliver Bad News

Sanford J. Brown

When a patient gets a “double whammy,” deliver the bad news the way you would like to hear it.



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