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MARCH / APRIL 2011

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FEATURES

    Answers to Your Questions About Medicare Annual Wellness Visits

    Cindy Hughes

    Our previous issue described the requirements and introduced an encounter form for documenting these visits. Now we answer your questions about this newest Medicare benefit.

    FROM THE EDITOR

      The Problem With Health IT

      Robert Edsall

      It will do great things – someday. But what do you do until then?

      LETTERS

      CODING & DOCUMENTATION

        CODING & DOCUMENTATION

        Cindy Hughes

        Using medical assistants to scribe with EHRs | ICD-9 codes and combination vaccines | Same-day discharge and readmission to another hospital with transfer to another doctor in the same group | 99211 visits | High-dose influenza vaccine

        PRACTICE PEARLS

          PRACTICE PEARLS

          G. Swartz

          Dialogue with patients about over-the-counter medications | Go green for the environment and your bottom line | Registering for the EHR incentive programs

          THE LAST WORD

            The Hope and the Hype of Health IT

            Bob Newbell

            Diagnosing illness and treating patients: There's just not an app for that.



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