Feb 1999

Features

CPT Changes for 1999

Kent J. Moore

Where to Look for Good Clinical Policies

Thomas T. Gilbert; Julie Scott Taylor

Ground Rules for Dealing With Health Care Plans

Brandi White

More Take-Home Messages From the AAFP Assembly

Brandi White; John Spicer

A Physician's Guide to Locum Tenens

William Cushing

An Expensive Dinner: Surviving a Failed Business Venture

Max Burger

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

• There's Room for Everyone

• NPs Are Here to Stay

• Turf Battles for the Insecure

• Priced Out of a Job

• The Good Old Days

• The NP's Role

• Academy Action

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