Jul-Aug 1999
Features
Readers Speak Out on the Turtle vs. Rabbit Controversy
Improve Your ICD-9 Coding Accuracy
A Quick-Reference Card for Identifying Level-4 Visits
Becoming a Physician Executive: Where to Look Before Making the Leap
Monitoring Your Practice's Financial Data: 10 Vital Signs
Departments
Editor's Page
The Patient vs. Physician Relationship
Robert L. Edsall
Editorial
The Ideal Physician Leader: A Family Physician
Perry Pugno
Getting Paid
How Medicare Views Concurrent Care
Kent J. Moore
Improving Patient Care
Tips for Boosting Efficiency and Morale
Thomas J. Weida
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Gail L. Horning
Computers
WebMD: The Online Future for Physicians?
David C. Kibbe
Salaried FP
Bonuses and Incentives: Three Key Questions
Kent J. Moore
Balancing Act
Kick the Procrastination Habit
Pamela J. Vaccaro
Coding & Documentation
• Payment for Extra Time • Fine-Needle Aspiration • Preadmission OB services • Sports Physicals, Revisited • Multiple Same-Day Tests • Suture Removal • A Summertime Vaccination
Ask FPM
• Handling an EEO Complaint • Intoxicated Patients • Group Averages
Practice Diary
• Close Calls • Drug Reps • Routines • The Art of Nudging
Monitor
• Physician Groups Call for Universal Coverage • Family Physicians See Small Income Gain • AMA Delegates Vote to Create Union • Physician Report Cards Receive Low Grade • HHS Expands 'Senior Patrols,' Billing Education • Y2K Update: More Medical Devices Found to Be Noncompliant • Rural Hospitals Struggling • Studies: Social Status Determines Health
Letters
• NPs and MDs Working Together
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