Feb 1999
Features
CPT Changes for 1999
Where to Look for Good Clinical Policies
Ground Rules for Dealing With Health Care Plans
More Take-Home Messages From the AAFP Assembly
A Physician's Guide to Locum Tenens
An Expensive Dinner: Surviving a Failed Business Venture
Departments
Editor's Page
Bringing You Knowledge in Small Bites
Robert L. Edsall
Getting Paid
Implementing a Policy for Same-Day Payments
Jean Kouris
Improving Patient Care
Time Savers
Susan Schooley
A Broader View of Patient Education
Brandi White
Computers
Voice Recognition Software: A Tool for Encounter Notes
Louis Spikol
Our Featured Web Site: Medical World Search
David C. Kibbe
Balancing Act
Conflict 101
Lyndia Flanagan
Coding & Documentation
• Differentiating Between New Patients ... And Established Patients • Coding Repeat Procedures • Codes for Motor Vehicle Accidents • Discharging Hospitalized Patients • When Preventive Visits Get Complicated
Ask FPM
• Legal Risks of Giving a Reference • Teaming Up Physicians and Midlevel Providers • Medicare HMOs and "Teaching Physician" Rules
Practice Diary
• Embracing Technology • Customer Service • Small Victories • Penny Wise, Pound Foolish • Getting Along With Insurers
Monitor
• Medicare Spending Slows; Leaders Call for More • Site Offers One-Stop Shopping for Clinical Policies • How Much Are You Paying Your Management Staff? • Doctors Fleeing HMOs? • HMOs Sued Over Compensation Methods • Studies Find Increasing Numbers of Uninsured • Y2K Update: HCFA 'Increasingly Optimistic' About Y2K Deadline
Letters
• Family Practice Is Still Family Practice
• Collaboration, Not Supervision
• Turf Battles for the Insecure
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