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"Burnout" in the Workplace: Strategies, Omissions, and Lessons from Wounded Healers
Resetting Your Priorities in Family Medicine Post-Pandemic
Your Wellness Corner with Dr. Sánchez Wohlever
Wellness Corner #2 - The Sun Will Rise by Dr. Sánchez Wohlever
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
FMA Physician Wellness Resources
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK
Coding Tips for G2211
G2211: Simply Getting Paid for Complexity
A majority of primary care visits should qualify for the new G2211 add-on code, which recognizes that the longitudinal patient relationship has complexity beyond that captured in the work of standard E/M codes. Here’s how to start using it.
Understanding Medicare Add on Code G2211: A Comprehensive Guide
Family Medicine Career Benchmark Dashboard
Imagine arming yourself with real data specifically for family physicians—including compensation, benefits, and job satisfaction details—as you make future career decisions. That's exactly the information you'll get from the family medicine career benchmark dashboard, available for free to AAFP/FAFP members.
AMA, Manatt Health unveil toolkit to combat drug overdoses
CHICAGO — With drug overdose deaths reaching record numbers, the American Medical Association (AMA) and Manatt Health released a toolkit today to guide states on removing barriers to evidence-based patient care.
Stakeholders in every state can use this new resource with legislators, regulators and other officials to pursue policies that are working to help patients. States have taken myriad approaches to expand treatment for patients with a substance use disorder, and the toolkit provides evidence and feedback on what’s working where and why. CLICK HERE to read more.
AMA Creates E/M Downcoding Identification Resource
The AMA has created a new resource to support physician practices in navigating such payer E/M downcoding programs. The document offers examples of downcoding scenarios, sample plan communications, guidance on reviewing remittance advice to identify downcoding, and documentation tips to support successful appeals.
Sustainable Practices: My Green Doctor
My Green Doctor is the free environmental sustainability program offered for members of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians. Offices and clinics learn to make gradual improvements in their uses of energy, water, chemicals, paper, and other resources. The program is easy to use, adding only five minutes of Green Team business to each regular staff meeting. Most offices save money in their first month using My Green Doctor. It works for healthcare clinics, offices, and outpatient centers. One five-office practice is saving $1500 per doctor every year and reducing its greenhouse gases, with no financial investment.
Begin by asking your office manager to register at www.MyGreenDoctor.org. Everyone in the office can register. Next, the office commits to the goal of environmental sustainability and to adding Green Team business to each office meeting agenda. Each meeting is fully scripted in the “Meeting-by-Meeting Guide” so that there is nothing for the office manager, director, or physician to study or prepare. Offices can qualify for the Green Doctor Office Certificate from the Academy within a few months.
My Green Doctor provides free brochures, posters, and other teaching tools to help helps share wise choices with patients and families. This can mean less energy and water used, cleaner air, fewer greenhouse gases, and better health outcomes. Register today at My Green Doctor to start saving money and improving health!
Physician/Attorney Collaboration on Behalf of Older Individuals
Click below to view a new, free online educational module relating to interprofessional collaboration between physicians and attorneys on behalf of their older patients/clients. The case vignettes and written materials in this module have been produced by the Florida State University Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law under a grant from the Retirement Research Foundation. This module is suitable both for individual self-study by physicians and attorneys and by professional organizations as the foundation for live continuing education programs. The module, including written materials, may be accessed by clicking here.