January 2004 Table of Contents
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Five Strategies for a
More Vital Practice
Betsy Nicoletti
Frustrated with the status quo? Here's how to take your practice from
so-so to stellar. |
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Creating a Successful
After-Hours Clinic
James Quackenbush, MD,
Roger Shenkel, MD, and Victoria Schatzel, RN, CDE
If you'd like to
tame your call load, increase patient satisfaction and make money while you
sleep, consider opening an after-hours clinic. |
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Three Steps to an
Effective Practice Budget
Keith Borglum
By appropriately tracking your expenses and comparing them to benchmark
data, you can create a practice budget that's useful and easy to maintain.
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GETTING PAID
CPT: What's in Store for
2004?
Kent J. Moore
Multiple
changes have been made to the vaccine codes. |
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CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Answers to Your Questions
Kent J. Moore
Emergency office
services • Coding multiple same-day, same-diagnosis visits • Excision
vs. destruction |
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IMPROVING PATIENT CARE
Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Clinical
Interventions
Phil Mohler, MD
Should your patient be
taking an aspirin a day to prevent heart attack? Here's how to decide.
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COMPUTERS
Creating an Electronic Filing Cabinet
Dean A.
Seehusen, MD
Find out how to move the overflowing file cabinet in
your office to a portable CD in your pocket. |
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BALANCING ACT
If
William R. Phillips, MD, MPH
The
new year is a good time to reflect upon who we are. |
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EDITOR'S PAGE
Two Ways of Looking at a Healthy Practice
Robert L. Edsall
Follow your beliefs and your practice expenses.
Both will lead you to a better practice. |
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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 review of
past, family and social history • "Doing it all" with open access
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MONITOR
Medicare payments to increase as part of Rx drug bill
• Malpractice premium rates could rise despite new state laws •
Practice Pearls |
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PRACTICE DIARY
Sanford J. Brown,
MD
Mentors • Is the customer always
right? Part II |
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ASK FPM
Selling a practice • Calculating RVUs for FPs •
What's worth scanning into an EMR? |
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FPM QUIZ (EARN 3.5 HOURS OF CME
CREDIT) |
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CLASSIFIEDS |
Cover illustration by Greg Clarke.
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