Sep 1999
Features
22 Tips for Improving Your Practice
Could Your Office Cope With Disaster?
Rebuilding After a Fire
Re-engineering a Family Practice Center
Sneak Preview of the (Revised) Revised E/M Documentation Guidelines
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
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David A. Gross
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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
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
Ask FPM
• Patient-Discharge Letter • Assignment Agreements • Stark Regulations
Practice Diary
• Seven Ways of Looking at Hepatitis C
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
Letters
• Make the Most of What You Have
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