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Collaboration with heart failure patients key
Comanaging cardiology patients after heart failure requires small adjustments, following recent guidelines, and patient involvement in decisions.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/07/collaboration-with-heart-failure-patients-key.htm
1 Jul 2021
Longer shifts proposed for first-year residents
A task force of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has removed the current requirement limiting first-year residents to 16 hours on shift, and has proposed limiting the shift to 24 hours on-task plus 4 hours to manage transitions of care.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/11/22/5.htm
22 Nov 2016
The challenge of time
Clinical lives are run by schedules with office visit slots as short as 15 minutes, often not enough time to handle the issues of any given patient.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/07/the-challenge-of-time.htm
1 Jul 2019
DME requests pose practice problems
Documentation requirements for some types of durable medical equipment (DME) are increasing, but DME requests can also be time-consuming in other ways for physician practices.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/07/dme.htm
1 Jul 2014
HHS provides weekly online learning opportunity in telemedicine
The peer-to-peer learning community aims to accelerate telemedicine implementation by ambulatory clinicians.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2020/08/04/2.htm
4 Aug 2020
Peers offer welcome, ongoing support
In recent years, hospitals and other medical groups have begun to embrace peer support programs as more informal pathways for physicians to get help with burnout and related issues.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/01/peers-offer-welcome-ongoing-support.htm
1 Jan 2021
Controlled substance agreements may reduce primary care visits, amid a decades-old, growing opioid crisis
Researchers retrospectively evaluated health care utilization changes among primary care patients receiving long-term opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain who enrolled in a controlled substance agreement.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2018/09/25/2.htm
25 Sep 2018
2023 changes to E/M coding: What's new?
As a result of advocacy from ACP and other specialty societies, national guidance for coding inpatient evaluation and management (E/M) services has been revised to align with earlier reforms to reduce administrative burdens starting Jan. 1.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2023/04/2023-changes-to-em-coding-whats-new.htm
1 Apr 2023
Telemedicine tips for internists
Ana María López, MD, MPH, MACP, offers advice on telemedicine and COVID-19 and will host a webinar on this topic on Tuesday, April 14, at 3 p.m. EDT.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/14/2.htm
14 Apr 2020
The case for G2211, Medicare's visit complexity code
A Medicare-specific add-on code, G2211, is designed to address the complexity inherent to evaluation and management associated with medical care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2023/05/the-case-for-g2211-medicares-visit-complexity-code.htm
1 May 2023