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Dr. Luis Arencibia

Originally from Miami, Dr. Arencibia graduated from Spartan Health Sciences University, St. Lucia West Indies and completed his residency training at East Jefferson General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program.  Dr. Arencibia has served the greater New Orleans region for more than 15 years.

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The LAFP Welcomes New Members

We would like to welcome the new members for the month of May:

New Resident Members:
William Bidwell, Jr, MD
Brian Doss, MD
Elissa Gadelha, MD
Emma Haftevani Sogomonian, MD
Long Her, MD
Sahreen Husan, MD
John Kunthara, MD
Rebecca Markway Lee DO, RD
Ivan Paul Martinez, MD
Elliot Thomas Ordoyne, MD
Justin Le Ren, MD
Joseph Louis Romito, IV, MD
Jacob Nathaniel Senker, MD
Jeanette Torres, MD
Ebuka Udorji, MD
Ricardo Villanueva Alvarez, MD
Jacques Villien, DO
Andrew Wynn, MD

New Student Members:
Luke Avenel
Katherine Babin
Julien Bourgeois
Theresa Bui
Chaning Burnett
Olivia Derise
Hunter Douglas
Sukhjeevan Doyle
Reniesha Franklin
Annie Gosserand
Sanchita Gupta
Kelli Michelle Gustafsson
Danielle Lauren Haidari
Muhib Haidari
Matthew Hennrikus
Samantha Lapayowker
Maxwell Leonhardt
Smita Mahajan
Van Pierre Doloritos Mandin
Devine Obasa
Patrick Orange
Rita Orazi
Beth Ren
Nathaniel Rogers
Anna Sanford
Taylor Santoro
Tyler Shipley
Wyatt Smith
William Swords
Hayden Torres
Jason Todd Worley
Winnie Yeates
Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor or Associate Professor - Clinical

The LSUHSC Department of Family Medicine is seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible Family Medicine physician for an academic faculty appointment with the Family Medicine Residency Program in Kenner, LA, a bedroom community to cosmopolitan New Orleans. Appointment will be to the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor (non-tenure, clinical track) as is commensurate with physician’s credentials and experience. The ideal candidate will have previous academic experience with obstetric skills, though not required.

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Coding E/M Visits by Medical Decision Making
Starting Jan. 1, physicians will be able to code evaluation and management visits based solely on medical decision making (MDM), which includes these three elements:
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Problems: These are the patient concerns you are addressing during the visit (the patient may have other medical issues, but if you’re not addressing them at this particular visit, they don’t count toward the visit level). Each visit will be designated as “minimal,” “low,” “moderate,” or “high” in this category, depending on how many problems are addressed, whether they are chronic or acute, and whether the chronic problems are stable.
Data: This is each unique test, order, or document you have to review for the visit. Each visit will be designated “minimal or none,” “limited,” “moderate,” or “extensive” in this category, depending on the amount of data reviewed, the data’s complexity, and where it came from (e.g., “external” data comes from physicians or providers of a different specialty or different group practice). Two important notes: For coding purposes, a panel counts as a single “unique test,” and you can’t use interpretation of data toward the visit level if you’re also billing separately for that interpretation.
Risk: This is the patient’s risk of morbidity or mortality based on the problems addressed and interventions discussed. Each visit will be designated “minimal,” “low,” “moderate,” or “high” in this category, depending on whether the problems call for decisions about prescription drug management, surgery, hospitalization, or cessation of care (e.g., entering hospice).
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Newsletter3The LAFP Weekly Family Medicine Update is an LAFP membership service intended to provide timely family medicine information to your e-mail inbox. The newsletter contains information about healthcare legislation, partnerships, conference opportunities and other need-to-know member news.

 

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LAFP 46 CoverLouisiana Family Doctor is LAFP's quarterly journal. Subject matter includes features on sports medicine, healthcare legislation, medical journal reviews as well as a range of other topics that affect family physicians.
 
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