Oct 2000
Features
Documenting High-Risk Cases to Avoid Malpractice Liability
Getting a Lock on Patient Confidentiality With E-Mail Encryption
Navigating the Patient Appeals Process
Making Quality and Service Pay: Part 1, The Internal Environment
Departments
Editor's Page
An Open Letter to the CEO of Our Health Plan
Robert L. Edsall
Getting Paid
ICD-9 Coding: Every Digit Counts
Kent J. Moore
Improving Patient Care
Cultural Competence
Marla Sutton
Computers
Using Web-Based Patient Communication
David C. Kibbe
Balancing Act
Physician Support Groups
Jennifer S. Bush
Letters
Coding & Documentation
Newborn Admission, H&P on Date of Discharge HPI or ROS? Lesion Destruction
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 Delivering Feedback Group Visits AIDS Awareness for All
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Phone Triage System Part-Time Practice Advice Corporate Ownership
Practice Diary
The Hospitalist Verbal Abuse Chest Pains
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