Table of Contents

	Lead Article
	Decrease Hassles and Costs by Integrating Your Plans' Formularies This practice reduced its plans' drug requirements to one document physicians can use easily to provide quality care less expensively. Frank J. Domino, MD, and Robert A. Baldor, MD

Do-It Yourself Disease Management It's amazing what you can accomplish with your PC, some off-the-shelf software and a desire to improve patients' health. David C. Kibbee, MD, MBA, and Kate Johnson, MHA

Take-Home Messages From the Academy's Managed Care Forum From time management to alternative medicine to accounting, the Managed Care Forum of the 1998 AAFP Scientific Assembly offered pearls for family physicians. John Spicer and Brandi White

	Cover Story
	What the Hospitalist Movement Means to Family Physicians The jury's still out on how hospitalists affect patient care, but many family physicians are choosing to give up hospital service before the verdict comes in. Leigh Ann Henry

Departments

Editor's Page

Competition: The Challenge Isn't Turf, It's Bedrock
Robert L. Edsall

Letters

Population-based primary care · Patient resistance to managed care

Ask FPM

Utilization management · Creating an office manual for rural health certification

Reimbursement Strategies

Coding & Documentation: What to do about Medicare overpayments · Documenting musculoskeletal findings · ICD-9 codes for lab work · Coding certification for driving

Kent J. Moore and Leigh Ann Henry

Getting Paid: Find Out How Much Your Plans Are Really Paying You

Jack Valancy, MBA

FPM Monitor

GAO: Don't expect HCFA to be ready for year 2000 · Health care costs see modest incresae · More health plans refuse to relesae HEDIS results ·First PSO in is first to leave · Dozens of plans leave Medicare HMO market · Preventive services task force reconvenes; three FPs on board

Office Suite

Staff Management: How You Can Keep Your Generation Xers on Staff

C. Carolyn Thiedke, MD

FPM Quiz

Earn 3 hours of AAFP Prescribed credit by reading articles in this issue.

1998 Annual Index

Practice Management Marketplace

FP Stats

(Small) Trends in Physician Compensation

Instructions for Authors

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