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Acute/Chronic Care

» Improving Chronic Care's Chronic Care Model
The Chronic Care Model emphasizes use of evidence-based guidelines, care coordination, follow-up and outcomes analysis, and patient self-management education and support.

Procedures

» Expand Your Practice With Procedures
Office procedures such as benign tumor excision, colonoscopy, vasectomy, etc. bring many benefits to primary practices — profit, patient satisfaction and new challenges for staff — according to this article from the 2006 AAFP News Now Bottomline Series.

» How to Boost Your Bottom Line With an Office Procedure
This 2003 article from Family Practice Management makes the case that "one effective way to boost reimbursement is to add an office-based procedure, such as joint and soft-tissue injections, to your current practice services."

» National Procedures Institute
NPI is now a joint venture of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and the Texas Academy of Family Physicians that provides medical education (CME conferences) on procedural skills for primary care clinicians. "NPI is known nationwide as the premier provider of CME procedures training."