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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