Mar 2005 Table of Contents

Features

Should You Treat Yourself, Family or Friends?

Robyn Latessa; Lisa Ray

What You Need To Know About the Prescription Drug Act

Jennifer Brinckerhoff; Eric A. Coleman

Answers to Your Questions About Same-Day Scheduling

Mark Murray

Departments

Editor's Page

Open Access: Nothing This Good Can Be Easy

Robert L. Edsall

Editorial

Establishing Rules of the Road for Pharmaceutical Representatives

Jason Evans

Getting Paid

The Value of a Coding Education

John Rowe ; Blake Fagan ; David Mouw ; Dottie King ; Kelly Christianson

Improving Patient Care

A Tool for Evaluating Patients with a Knee Injury

Mark H. Ebell

Computers

How to Cure a Bad Case of Fax-o-rrhea

Tripp Bradd

Balancing Act

How to Become A Defensive Filer

Anna K. Cox-Havron

Coding & Documentation

• Coding Forms Completion • An Office Visit With Multiple Procedures • Venipuncture on a Medicare Patient • Coding a Pre-Operative, Consultative Exam • Trigger-point Injections • Interpreting Diagnostic Tests • Critical-care Transport • "Reviewing" vs. "Interpreting" an X-Ray

Ask FPM

• Semi-retirement Within a Productivity-based Group • Salary Comparison Resources • Appointment of Counsel

Practice Diary

• Vitamin V • A Transcription Error

Monitor

• Physicians' Quality Report Cards to Go Public • Medicare Pay-for-Performance Demo Under Way • Health Care Professionals Unlikely to Address Colleagues' Errors • Physicians Sue Health Plan Over Fee Reduction

Letters

• MOC Triggers Resignation

• MOC Implementation Unfair

• Grace Period Could Make MOC Less Time-Demanding

• Days Too Short for MOC

• Enough Is Enough

• Asthma Days Worth Further Chronicling

• Conflict of Interest.

• EHR Vendor Rating Tool

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