Sep-Oct 2009 Table of Contents
Features
ICD-9 Updates 2010: New and Noteworthy Codes
Five Communication Strategies to Promote Self-Management of Chronic Illness
Immediate Action Protocol: A Tool to Help Your Practice Assess Suicidal Patients
What You Can Do to Help Your Uninsured Patients
Offering Financial Assistance to Newly Uninsured Patients
Departments
From The Editor
Preparing for Health Care Unreform
The Last Word
Coding & Documentation
• Home Health Services and Private Payers • Three-Day Observation Stay • Documenting Surgical Assists • Prolonged Services
Practice Pearls
• Give Cash-Paying Patients Some Cash Back • Dress Up Your Ceiling Lights • Calculating Average Work RVUs for Family Physicians • Think Like an Athlete When Assessing Injuries
Letters
• Dr. Starfield Brings It Home
• Cell Phone Communication With Patients: Love it or Hate it?
• Working With the "Right People" and the "Wrong People"
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