Nov-Dec 1998

Features

Decrease Hassles and Costs by Integrating Your Plans' Formularies

Frank J. Domino; Robert A. Baldor

Do-It-Yourself Disease Management

David C. Kibbe; Kate Johnson

Take-Home Messages From the Academy's Managed Care Forum

Brandi White; John Spicer

What the Hospitalist Movement Means to Family Physicians

Leigh Ann Backer

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

Ask FPM

• 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

• Practical Coding Help

• On Physicians, PPMCs and Profit

• Evaluating Physician Performance

• What's Fraud for the Goose ...

• Not for Computer Nerds Only

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