Coding and Billing Software for Palm-Top Computers
K. Meg Morrison, MD
Your PDA can help you code more efficiently and accurately.

Answers to Your Questions on Solo, Idealized Practice
How does a solo doc with no support staff manage his referrals, order his supplies and give immunizations? Gordon Moore, MD, answers those questions and more.

HIPAA Compliance: How to Get an Extension
David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA
The government will give you another year to prepare for the transactions and code sets standards, but you have to ask.

Enjoying Family Practice Despite It All
Sarah Smiley
Given lemons, some family physicians are still finding ways to make lemonade.

GETTING PAID
Dealing With Patients Who Don't Pay
Maria V. Ciletti
You can give your staff strategies for effectively enforcing your practice's payment policies.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Answers to Your Questions
Initial hospital care codes • Peak-flow rate and E/M • Digital nerve block and nail removal

MONITOR
HIPAA privacy rules await proposed changes • Family practice match numbers drop slightly; fill rate goes up • The top 20 in 2000 • Practice pearls

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE
Does Health Habit Advice Affect Patient Satisfaction?
Robin S. Gotler, MA, David A. Barzilai, George E. Kikano, MD, Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD

Physicians play an important role in encouraging healthy behaviors, but does this advice help or harm patient satisfaction?

PRACTICE DIARY
Sanford J. Brown, MD
Taking advantage • Low overhead • Search and rescue • Mentors

SALARIED FP
A Productivity Primer
Kent J. Moore
Physician productivity is measured in many ways today. Here's a look at some of them.

ASK FPM
Benefits trends • Medicare recredentialing forms • Collaborating with an NP

BALANCING ACT
Reconnecting With the Joy of Medicine
Jeff Pendergrast, MD, and Jim Henry, MDiv
What can you do when the passion for serving others comes at too high a personal price?