Sep 1999

Features

22 Tips for Improving Your Practice

Rod Aymond

Could Your Office Cope With Disaster?

Charles McClure; Gerard Klinzing

Rebuilding After a Fire

Clinton C. Sanford; Susan Smith

Re-engineering a Family Practice Center

George E. Kikano; Robin Gotler; Jack Valancy

Sneak Preview of the (Revised) Revised E/M Documentation Guidelines

Leigh Ann Backer

Departments

Editor's Page

The Draft Documentation Guidelines: Unloading the Last Straw
Robert L. Edsall

Editorial

An Alarming Case of Viagra Abuse
Ted J. Stuart

Getting Paid

How to Prevent a Prepayment Review From Becoming a No-Payment Review
Kent J. Moore

Improving Patient Care

Practical Ways to Improve Patient Satisfaction With Visit Length
George E. Kikano ; David A. Gross ; Kurt C. Stange

Computers

Four Tips for More Efficient Word Processing
Gil L. Solomon

Balancing Act

What Your Body, Mind and Spirit Can Tell You
Marshall O. Zaslove

Letters

• Learning to Relax

• Joy in Teaching

• Make the Most of What You Have

• Joy and Faith

• Cutting Back

• Correction

Coding & Documentation

• Two Physicians, One Admission • Two Physicians, One Delivery • Coding a Limited Well-Woman Exam • Re-established Patient • Minor Procedures Without Their Own Codes • Vitamin B-12 Injection • X-ray Code Components

Monitor

• Accountability, Measurement Can Increase Performance • Patients Value Coordination of Care, Not 'Gatekeeping' • Fraud-Fighters Suspected of Fraud • Y2K Update: HCFA Urges Providers to Test Claims Processing • New Vaccine Requirements • Market for Primary Care Physicians Cools a Little • Rural Physicians Face Challenges in Providing High-Quality Care

Ask FPM

• Patient-Discharge Letter • Assignment Agreements • Stark Regulations

Practice Diary

• Seven Ways of Looking at Hepatitis C

About the CME Quiz

AAFP members and FPM subscribers can take the CME quiz online at http://www.aafp.org/fpmquiz.

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