Articles
Documenting High-Risk Cases to Avoid Malpractice Liability
You're at the highest risk of malpractice suits when dealing with these five clinical conditions. Full documentation can help.
Getting a Lock on Patient Confidentiality With E-Mail Encryption
How can you be sure that patient information you share electronically with other physicians is not as accessible as a note on a postcard?
Navigating the Patient Appeals Process
When faced with a health plan denial, work with your patient to appeal the decision.
Making Quality and Service Pay: Part 1, The Internal Environment
Insurers may not explicitly reward your practice for improved quality and service, but there is a way to make quality and service pay.
From the Editor
Letters
Getting Paid
ICD-9 Coding: Every Digit Counts
Here's how to tell whether the diagnosis codes you submit are specific enough to be reimbursable.
Coding & Documentation
Coding and Documentation
Newborn admission, H&P on date of discharge | HPI or ROS? | Lesion destruction
Monitor
Monitor
Teaching compassion | Goodbye medicine | Health care spending spree | State medical boards take on medical directors | Flu shots from the PharmD | In Medicare we trust | New Medicare resources | False credentials | Practice Pearls
Improving Patient Care
Practice Diary
Computers
Using Web-Based Patient Communication
Interactive practice Web sites can make you available to patients when and where they need you.
Ask FPM
Ask FPM
Phone triage system | Part-time practice advice | Corporate ownership
Balancing Act
Physician Support Groups
Making meaningful connections with your colleagues can give deeper meaning to your profession.