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Making Medicare Wellness Visits Work in Practice

Arnold E. Cuenca

Taking a systematic, team-based approach can make these services valuable for physicians and patients.

Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Durable Medical Equipment

Stanley Borg

With commercials for “free” equipment and supplies running daily, you need to be ready to respond when a patient requests a prescription.

A Toolkit to Improve the Treatment of CA-MRSA

Elizabeth E. Stewart, Douglas Fernald, Elizabeth W. Staton

This simple strategy may save time and increase awareness of care guidelines.

Managing Messages

Paula Eaton

Three principles helped this small primary care practice conquer the dreaded inbox and its mountain of messages.

FROM THE EDITOR

My Last Issue

Robert Edsall

The editor will change, but the journal won't.

OPINION

Rationing Time

Roger Barrow

We decry rationing care, yet we ration our time every day.

LETTERS

Managing referrals and referral specialists

Medicare annual wellness visit health risk assessment

“Heartsink” patients

Clarification

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Debra Seyfried, Kent Moore

Smoking cessation | Subsequent observation care | Medicare annual wellness visit eligibility | Definition of “new patient”

PRACTICE PEARLS

PRACTICE PEARLS

Nathan Hitzeman, Steven Waldren

Use discretion with drug expiration dates | Review E/M coding patterns | Who gets to keep the EHR incentive checks?

THE LAST WORD

Five Reactions to a New EHR

Elizabeth Rose Cochran Ward

If your initial reaction isn't positive, hang in there. You're not alone.



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