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Jan, 2004 Table of Contents

Features

Five Strategies for a More Vital Practice

Creating a Successful After-Hours Clinic

Three Steps to an Effective Practice Budget

Departments

Editor's Page

Two Ways of Looking at a Healthy Practice

Getting Paid

CPT: What's in Store for 2004

Improving Patient Care

Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Clinical Interventions

Computers

Creating an Electronic Filing Cabinet

Balancing Act

If

Coding & Documentation

• Emergency Office Services • Coding Multiple Same-Day, Same-Diagnosis Visits • Excision vs. Destruction

Ask FPM

• Selling a Practice • Calculating RVUs for FPs • What's Worth Scanning Into an EMR?

Practice Diary

• Mentors • Is the Customer Always Right? Part II

Monitor

• Medicare Payments to Increase as Part of Rx Drug Bill • Malpractice Premium Rates Could Rise Despite New State Laws • Tracking Office-Visit Cycle Time • Reduce Inappropriate Antibiotic Usage With a SNAP

Letters

Stepping Up to the Challenge

Recapturing Job Satisfaction

Solo Is Best

Reinventing Solo Practice

Keeping Medicine Meaningful

Focusing on the Positive

Words of Encouragement

"Overcoding" the Statistics

Documenting History

"Doing It All" With Open Access

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