Jul-Aug 2004 Table of Contents
Features
How to Use Scheduling Data to Improve Efficiency
Using Bilingual Staff Members as Interpreters
Should You Charge Your Patients for "Free" Services?
Departments
Editor's Page
Exploring the Limits of an Insane System
Getting Paid
Billing for Your Work With Surgeons
Patient Education
Do I Need an Interpreter? (Spanish version)
Improving Patient Care
Sticking the Landing: How to Create a Clean End to a Medical Visit
Balancing Act
Coding & Documentation
• 99211 & Immunizations • "Self-Limited, Minor" Problems • After Office Hours • Multiple Procedures at the Same Visit • HCPCS Codes for Nubain & Phenergan • Benadryl Injection
Ask FPM
• Billing Costs • Online Consultations Outside Your Patient Base • Documenting E/M Services With Checklists • Delayed Dictation
Practice Diary
• Role Models • Horses vs. Zebras V
Monitor
• Backlog in Medicare Enrollment Processing Continues • Supreme Court Limits Lawsuits Against HMOs
Letters
• Waiting Room Entertainment and Copyright Laws
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