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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.

Four Strategies for Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in Your Practice

Janet Ann McAndrews, Sarah McMullen, Susan L. Wilson

When practices promote fitness as the treatment of choice for all patients, good things happen.

Using a Simple Spreadsheet to Improve Intra-Office Communication and Patient Flow

DAVID MARGOLIUS, MARK GHALY

Does your patient flow suffer because communication between front and back offices is awkward? Here's a solution to the problem -- for free.

Five Common Coding Mistakes That Are Costing You

Emily Hill

Fix these problems to increase your bottom line.

FROM THE EDITOR

The Problem With Health IT

Robert Edsall

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

LETTERS

EHRs: Attitude isn't everything

Richard Gibula

Controlled substance refill program: A sign of a broken health care system?

Change in Medicare annual wellness visit elements

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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