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CPT Update for 2013

Debra Seyfried

This year's changes include some promising new codes for care coordination.

A Streamlined Approach to Prescription Management

THOMAS A. SINSKY, CHRISTINE A. SINSKY

Synchronizing each patient's prescriptions so they're handled all at once could save your practice at least an hour a day.

A Toolkit for Clinicians Rounding in Long-Term Care Facilities

Natalie Roeser, D. Maggie McEvoy, Amber Scaletta, Don Pine, Teresa Quinn

A lack of appropriate bedside equipment can impede thorough clinical evaluations, but this can be easily remedied.

A Team-Building Model for Team-Based Care

Daniel P. Marlowe, Eron G. Manusov, Deborah J. Teasley

Focusing on their strengths and borrowing concepts from family therapy helped bring this family medicine group together in pursuit of a common goal.

FROM THE EDITOR

The Role of Peer Review in FPM

Leigh Ann Backer

The FPM editorial team includes dozens of family physicians and other subject matter experts.

LETTERS

Documenting and coding preventive visits

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Debra Seyfried

Documenting time | Initial vs. subsequent nursing facility care | Modifier 52 | Medicare annual wellness visit shortcut

PRACTICE PEARLS

PRACTICE PEARLS

Bernard Harris, Deepthi Buddha, Hien Nguyen, Renae Moch

Create a wallet-sized medication list | Eat a meal with your staff | View the family as an ally in treatment adherence | Stop seeing your colleagues' patients | Follow up on a patient's bad behavior

THE LAST WORD

Appreciate the Now

J. LeBron McBride

Worries about the past or future can sap your joy and productivity in the present.



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