Features
A Systematic Approach to Identifying Drug-Seeking Patients
A New Approach to Group Visits: Helping High-Need Patients Make Behavioral Change
Closing the Physician-Staff Divide: A Step Toward Creating the Medical Home
Stark III: Refinement Not Revolution (Part 2)
How to Protect Your Data When You're on the Web
What You Need to Know When Called Upon to Be a Good Samaritan
Departments
From The Editor
A Quick Tour of the Changes in FPM
Opinion
Why Teamwork Will Make or Break Your Practice
The Last Word
A New Epidemic: Administrative Fibrillation
Coding & Documentation
• Tobacco Cessation Codes • Specimen Transfer to Lab • Home Health Services • Diagnosis Code for Prothrombin Time Testing • Hospital Discharge When the Patient Dies • Hepatitis Test • Nebulizer Supplies
News & Trends
• 2008 Match Results: Family Medicine Shows Slight Improvement • Communities Needed for EHR Demonstration Project • Majority of FPs Wouldn't Do It Again Despite Strong Job Market
Practice Pearls
• Monitor Records Transfers • Use Analogies to Increase Patient Compliance • Have a Garage Sale • Focus on Special Needs • Tracking Follow-Up Care
Letters
• Contemplating Robin Hood Practice
• Patient vs. "Customer-Owner"
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