Search results for "Preventive care"
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond about retail clinic guidelines and EMRs.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/01/letters.htm
1 Jan 2008
When will the lights go out on fee-for-service?
Physicians have been paid according to the number of visits or procedures they bill for a very long time, almost half a century for Medicare.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/07/washington.htm
1 Jul 2011
Discussing death, dying, and advance care planning
Clinicians and their teams may want to identify which patients and families to prioritize for advance care planning initiatives.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/09/discussing-death-dying-and-advance-care-planning.htm
1 Sep 2017
Overcoming colonoscopy's image problem
Colon cancer screening saves lives, but internists have to overcome patients' initial unease with the test. They also need to sort through the multiple guidelines released in 2008 and help their patients choose among the many screening regimens.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/01/colon.htm
1 Jan 2009
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT The 2013 Medicare physician feeschedule rule changes ...
The bulk of thisincrease (3%) comes from the new transi-tional care management codes. ... For instance, commonmeasures for internal medicine relate to dia-betes or congestive heart failure manage-ment or preventive care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/01/acpi-201301-coding_t1.pdf
3 Jan 2013