Nov-Dec 1998
Features
Decrease Hassles and Costs by Integrating Your Plans' Formularies
Do-It-Yourself Disease Management
Take-Home Messages From the Academy's Managed Care Forum
What the Hospitalist Movement Means to Family Physicians
Departments
Editor's Page
Watch for Changes in Family Practice Management
Robert L. Edsall
Getting Paid
Find Out How Much Your Plans Are Really Paying You
Jack Valancy
Staff Management
How You Can Keep Your Generation Xers on Staff
C. Carolyn Thiedke
FP Stat
(Small) Trends in Physician Compensation
Coding & Documentation
• What to Do About Medicare Overpayments • Documenting Musculoskeletal Findings • ICD-9 Codes for Lab Work • Coding Certification for Driving
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• Utilization Management • Creating an Office Manual for Rural Health Certification
Monitor
• GAO: Don't Expect HCFA to be Ready for Year 2000 • More Health Plans Refuse to Release HEDIS Results • Health Care Costs See Modest Increase • Dozens of Plans Leave Medicare HMO Market • First PSO In Is First to Leave • Preventive Services Task Force Reconvenes; Three FPs on Board
Letters
• On Physicians, PPMCs and Profit
• Evaluating Physician Performance
• What's Fraud for the Goose ...
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