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A Team-Based Care Model That Improves Job Satisfaction

COREY LYON, AIMEE F. ENGLISH, PETER CHABOT SMITH

Expanding the role of medical assistants to better support providers can improve not only traditional outcomes but also job satisfaction.

HIPAA: Answers to Your Frequently Asked Questions

RICHELLE MARTING

Does your organization interpret HIPAA too strictly, too loosely, or just right? Find out with these FAQs.

Is Your Diagnosis Coding Ready for Risk Adjustment?

BETSY NICOLETTI

As payment models change, diagnosis coding is more important than ever. Here's how to be sure your codes capture your patients' severity of illness.

Diagnosis Coding for Value-Based Payment: A Quick Reference Tool

DANIEL BELATTI, MEGAN LYKKE

Use this cheat sheet to identify diagnosis codes that are weighted for risk adjustment.

Encouraging Health Behavior Change: Eight Evidence-Based Strategies

STEPHANIE A. HOOKER, ANJOLI PUNJABI, KACEY JUSTESEN, LUCAS BOYLE, MICHELLE D. SHERMAN

Using these brief interventions, you can help your patients make healthy behavior changes.

SPPACES: MEDICAL APP REVIEWS

Five Mobile Apps to Help Patients With Anxiety and Depression

DAVID REBEDEW

When patients need some assistance coping with mental distress, consider these apps.

FROM THE EDITOR

It's Time to Go RAFing

Kenneth G. Adler

What you don't know about risk-adjustment factor scores could cost you.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CINDY HUGHES

TIME SPENT ON CHRONIC CARE MANAGEMENT VS. TIME SPENT ON E/M SERVICES | ICD-10 CODING FOR BUG BITES | BILLING FOR PALLIATIVE CARE VISITS

PRACTICE PEARLS

PRACTICE PEARLS

Barbara Stanford

BE MINDFUL OF THE JOY IN MEDICINE | RULE OUT HEART MURMURS MORE EFFECTIVELY IN CHILDREN | TAKE A LESSON FROM THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY

THE LAST WORD

What to Do When Emotions Run High in the Exam Room

J. LEBRON MCBRIDE

Step one: Don't ignore it.

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Helping Your Adolescent and Young Adult Patients Get the Preventive Care and Services They Need

The Adolescent Health Consortium Project has clarified clinical preventive service recommendations for adolescents and young adults.



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