Jan 1999
Features
Is There a Physician Union in Your Future?
Nine Keys to Better Recruiting
Strengthening Relationships With Your Patients
Getting Patients Off Hold and Online
Measuring Patient Satisfaction: How to Do It and Why to Bother
How Does Your Practice Sound on the Phone?
Why I Fired My Family Doctor
FPM Articles on Patient Relations
Departments
Editor's Page
Redesigned With You in Mind
Robert L. Edsall
Editorial
Tools for Today's Family Physician: The FPM Curriculum
Marc L. Rivo
Getting Paid
Three New Year's Resolutions From Medicare
Kent J. Moore
Improving Patient Care
Are Your Patients Getting the Preventive Services They Need?
L. Casey Chosewood
Computers
Make Your Presentations More Powerful
Thomas G. Savel
MEDLINE
David C. Kibbe
Salaried FP
Medalia: Why We Unionized
James D. Vandermeer
Balancing Act
Six Ways to Make Play a Priority
Pamela J. Vaccaro
Coding & Documentation
Coding Fractional Units of Service Documenting Medical Necessity for Tests Coding Tests for Therapeutic Levels Substitutions for Bulleted Exam Elements Same-Day Annual Exam and Flex Sig Consultation vs. ED Visit Coding Telephone Calls Coding a Sports Physical Coding a Test's Professional Component
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Medicaid and "Teaching Physician" Rules PCPs and Stark II Who Can Sign Your Prescriptions? Tracking ED Use
Practice Diary
E-mail Old Charts Hands On Staff Appreciation Office Aesthetics
Monitor
Y2K Update: Millennium Bug Isn't Just HCFA's Problem HMO Lets Doctors Choose Referral Physicians FP Stats: A Matter of Trust Groups Call for Patient Privacy Improvements National Health Care Spending Slows ... With Help From Medicare, Medicaid Physicians Fare Well, Despite Managed Care Four Family Physicians Go to Washington
Letters
Dubious Comfort From Medicare
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