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Physician's Focus: Pain Medications, with a Special Section on Osteoarthritis
Primary care practitioners are all too familiar with acute and chronic pain symptoms (led by low back pain, migraine, and joint pain). These articles help PCPs navigate pain management options, using not only nonpharmacologic treatment options and analgesics, but also opioids and pain-modulating agents.
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Physician's Focus: Understanding the State of Coding in 2010
As a physician, how can you ensure you obtain the greatest revenue for the work you're doing this year? The answer: Optimize your earnings by optimize communication with your coding and billing staffs. By getting to the bottom of some of the complexities of this year's coding, you can work better with coders and billers to solve coding challenges and develop workflows to increase revenue and compliance.
Saying no to Medicare
Physicians in every specialty, in every city and town, in every state in the country lament almost daily the reimbursement levels and other frustrations associated with caring for Medicare patients.
All Medicare, (almost) all the time...and loving it
The 21 percent cut to Medicare physician reimbursement rates averted last month affected few physicians more than internist and geriatrician Nevada A. Lee, MD, who runs a solo practice in Raytown, Mo.
5 tips for achieving a work/life balance
Over the past 18 years, my practice has granted me exclusive access to thousands of years' worth of wisdom from elderly patients. All I have to do is ask, and they reveal their secrets of life, love, death and happiness.
Physician’s Focus: Obesity in Youngsters
A recent poll found that Americans believe childhood obesity is the biggest health problem facing children today, outstripping drugs, alcohol, and smoking, and the numbers agree. ModernMedicine presents a selection of articles and relevant findings on the management and treatment of this epidemic in the pediatric cohort.
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