CPT Update for 2011: Immunizations, Observations and More

CINDY HUGHES

Changes include new codes for pediatric vaccine administration and subsequent hospital observation care.

Should Your Practice Participate in a Quality-Reporting Program?

Jacqueline R. Halladay, Philip D. Sloane, Ann Lefebvre, Samuel W. Warburton, Marti Wolf

To answer this question, you must balance anticipated costs with potential gains.

The 2011 FPM Survey of User Satisfaction with EHR Systems

KENNETH G. ADLER, ROBERT L. EDSALL

The survey takes just minutes, and your response matters more than ever to your colleagues. Besides, you just might win an iPad.

Integrating a Behavioral Health Specialist Into Your Practice

RANDALL REITZ, PETER FIFIELD, PATRICE WHISTLER

Close collaboration may be the best solution for your patients and your practice.

What You Need to Know About the Medicare Preventive Services Expansion

CINDY HUGHES

This guidance and our downloadable tools will make the new rules easier to implement.

A Microcosm of the Health Care ‘System’

Robert Edsall

Should a patient ask you what's wrong with health care today, where do you start?

PCMH, ACOs and health care “systems”

Steve Deal

“Refills” for schedule II controlled substances?

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Cindy Hughes

Immunization billing when Medicare is secondary payer | Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm | Noninvasive diagnostic vascular studies | Flu and pneumococcal vaccines administered by nurses

PRACTICE PEARLS

Parul Sud, Karen M. Bigby

Uncover medication non-adherence with a simple question | Protect against contamination during colposcopies | Provide specific prescription directions | Call about unpaid claims | Learn to say no

The Efficiencies of Meandering

Mary P. Guerrera

Could being productive really be so effortless?