Oct 1999

Features

A Last-Minute Y2K Survival Guide

Susan Rehm; David C. Kibbe; Jennifer S. Bush

Job Satisfaction: Putting Theory Into Practice

J. Michael Syptak; David W. Marsland; Deborah Ulmer

Preventing and Responding to Sexual Harassment

T. Hensley Williams; Nancy M. Williams

Improving Chronic Disease Care in the Real World: A Step-by-Step Approach

Brandi White

Departments

Editor's Page

Is There a Leading Physician in the House?
Robert L. Edsall

Editorial

Redefining Corporate Medicine
Barbara G. Cook

Getting Paid

What to Tell Your Patients When Their Medicare Managed Care Plan Quits
Kent J. Moore

Four Steps for Improving Efficiency and Cash Flow
Patricia A. Giura

Improving Patient Care

Setting Group Goals
Stacey Eubanks

Salaried FP

What to Do When You've Lost Your Job
Stuart R. Kaplan

Balancing Act

Relighting Your Fire
George Blackall

Coding & Documentation

• Examples of 99211 • Administration of BCG Vaccine • A Second Opinion • Care Plan Oversight • Routine Venipuncture With Office Visit Codes • Fetal Non-Stress Test • Pre-Op EKG

Ask FPM

• FMLA Forms • Fair Compensation • Problem Patient

Practice Diary

• Julia's Tree • Horses vs. Zebras • Starting Early

Monitor

• Financial Crisis to Hit Calif. Medical Groups, Says CMA • Are Your Patients Telling the Whole Truth? • Health Plan to Begin Dispatching Ambulances • Nation Meets 15 Percent of Health Goals • Nonadherence Named 'Major Health Threat' • AAFP, AMIA Offer Guidance on Physician-Patient E-mail • Survey Looks at Health Plan Denials

Letters

• Balancing Act

• Medicine Is About Sacrifice

• Until the Lungs Are Removed ...

• Correction

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