Jan 2007

Features

Level-II vs. Level-III Visits: Cracking the Codes

Thomas A. Waller

CPT 2007: New Codes, New Rules and New Opportunities

Cindy Hughes

What Do We Really Know About Patient Satisfaction?

C. Carolyn Thiedke

Grade Your Payers: The Final Call for Survey Responses

Departments

From The Editor

Where We're Coming From
Robert L. Edsall

The Last Word

Auld Lang Syne: Practice Management Resolutions for the New Year
Mitchell L. Cohen

Coding & Documentation

• Hospital Admission and Discharge • Assessing Older Drivers • Tdap Injections

News & Trends

• CMS Bumps Pay for Point-of-Care A1C Tests • Congress Halts Medicare at Last Hour, Establishes Bonus for Data Reporting • Rising Overhead Hurts FP Profits • Retail Clinics Continue to Make News

Practice Pearls

• Enrolling in Medicare • Escort Your Geriatric Patients to the Exam Room • Keep Your Staff Safe • Use Metaphors to Increase Patient Compliance • Get to Know Your Staff With Games at Staff Meetings • Display Family Pictures in Your Exam Rooms

Letters

• Saving the Sample Closet

• Flu Vaccine Distribution

• Pharmacists as Nonphysician Practitioners

About The CME Quiz

AAFP members and FPM subscribers can take the CME quiz online at http://www.aafp.org/fpmquiz.

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