Encounter Forms for Better Preventive Visits
Peter A. Cardinal, MD, MHA
These two tools can help improve your care and documentation.

Practical Evidence-Based Internet Resources
Brian S. Alper, MD, MSPH
If you've got a clinical question and want an immediate answer based on the most current and valid information available, check out these Web sites.

How to Make Your Meetings More Productive
Roger Shenkel, MD
By gathering the right people, using your time wisely and focusing on action, you'll conduct meetings everyone will want to attend.

The KISS Principle in Family Practice: Keep It Simple and Systematic
Leif I. Solberg, MD
A clear, deliberate, consistent approach will beat the alternative every time.

GETTING PAID
Best Practices in Claims Processing
Leigh Ann Backer
These strategies will help you minimize claims delays and denials and revive your practice's revenues.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Answers to Your Questions
Kent J. Moore
Hospital extended stay/observation • Coding the treatment of depression • Medicare certification and recertification • Coding venipuncture • Reimbursement for a surgical tray • CPT code for semen analysis • Paperwork codes • Counseling codes • Urine sample & 99211

MONITOR
Physicians lobby to stop more Medicare payment cuts • Solutions proposed to ease malpractice insurance crisis • Clinical support staff salaries • Practice pearls

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE
I Do House Calls!
Samantha Pozner, MD

Home visits aren't just a thing of the past. They can benefit patients and doctors, even today.

PRACTICE DIARY
Sanford J. Brown, MD
Is the customer always right? • Unprofessional conduct

ASK FPM
Discouraging no-shows • Vacation coverage • Disability insurance

BALANCING ACT
Eight Principles for Stronger Relationships
J. LeBron McBride, PhD, MPH
Married to your work? Try working on your marriage.