Jun 2000
Features
Planning Group Visits for High-Risk Patients
Determining the True Value of a Family Practice Residency Program
How a Salaried FP Computerized His Practice -- on His Own
House Calls: Taking the Practice to the Patient
Departments
Editor's Page
Toward Electronic Medical Records for the Small Practice
Robert L. Edsall
Getting Paid
How to Get Reimbursed When a Colleague Treats Your Patients
Kent J. Moore
Improving Patient Care
Using Flow Sheets to Improve Diabetes Care
Brandi White
Computers
Lowering the Cost of Practice Management
David C. Kibbe
Balancing Act
Meetings Everyone Wants to Attend
Pamela J. Vaccaro
Coding & Documentation
• Allergy Shots • New Patient Definition • H. Pylori Test • Acupuncture and Hypnosis • Nonroutine Venipuncture • Most Common Office Visit Codes • Heel Pain Diagnosis • Waived Tests
Ask FPM
• Billing for Lab Tests • Backdating Referral Authorizations • Considering Ultrasound?
Practice Diary
• Electronic Claims • Complementary Medicine • Portal to Portal
Monitor
• Part-Time Practice Yields Equal Performance, Improved Satisfaction • Revised Documentation Guidelines at Least a Year Away • Evaluation and Management (E/M) Code Utilization in Family Practice • FDA Begins Review of Over-the-Counter Drug Policy • Lawsuit Challenging Resource-Based Practice Expenses Dismissed • Money Buys Happiness • Pill Splitting • Medicare on Trial • Going Broke • Equal Care? • Teen Depression • Preventing Dementia • Complementary Medicine • Press 1 For ...
Letters
• More Good Words for Capitation
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