Table of Contents

The New AMA President Answers Your Questions Doctors and patients must make hard choices or face "the dark ages ofmedicine," warns family physician Nancy Dickey, MD. Joseph Sgammato

It's Time to Start Practicing Population-Based HealthCare You don't have to be part of an integrated delivery system to optimize care forpopulations of patients with common conditions. Marc L. Rivo, MD, MPH

When aPhysician Practice Management Company Comes Calling Do you know what to do if a PPMC shows interest in partnering with you and yourpractice? Robert P. Carlson

Departments

Editor's Page

Where Do We Go From Here?
Robert L. Edsall

Editorial

The E/M Documentation Guidelines: Back to the Drawing Board
Neil H. Brooks, MD

Letters

Obsessed with coding, or patient care? · Computerized chartsfor the Mac · Practice management and residency training

Ask FPM

Patient satisfaction surveys · Support staff ratios

Reimbursement Strategies

Medicare Update: Changes Proposed for the E/M Documentation Guidelines

Leigh Ann Henry

Getting Paid: Use Random Audits to Find Payment Problems

FPMMonitor
Primary care shortage questioned · Medicare slows payment ofclaims · Hospitalist group affiliates with ACP · Proposals simplify electronic claims · Kaiser-union pact: Nursesto evaluate quality of care

Office Suite

Staff Management: Promoting Your Staff Makes Good Financial Sense
Robert B. Connelly

FPMQuiz

Earn 2 hours of AAFP Prescribed credit by reading articles in this issue.

FPMCalendar

Practice Management Marketplace

FP Stats

Sticking Up for Primary Care

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