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Monitoring APN Productivity in Practice

Ideally there should be a bell curve of APN billing, with the smallest amounts of billing occurring at the low and high ends of the billing scale. The APN must:

Calculate number of visits and reimbursement collected as a measure of full-time-equivalent practice to document productivity
Separate direct patient activities (face-to-face clinical time) from indirect patient activities (nonclinical activities such as phone calls, referral contacts, letter-writing, meetings)
justify the amount of time spent on each activity

Now for some practice on documentation. Let's go back to the American Association of Family Practice for some charting guidelines and case study examples.

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