Jul-Aug 1999

Features

Readers Speak Out on the Turtle vs. Rabbit Controversy

Robert D. Gillette

Improve Your ICD-9 Coding Accuracy

Emily Hill

A Quick-Reference Card for Identifying Level-4 Visits

James Giovino

Becoming a Physician Executive: Where to Look Before Making the Leap

Steven L. Thomason

Monitoring Your Practice's Financial Data: 10 Vital Signs

Rod Aymond

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 ; 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

• Guidelines and Flowcharts

• Thriving on Money

• Physicians Know Best

• NPs and MDs Working Together

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