Nov-Dec 2000

Features

Making Quality and Service Pay: Part 2, The External Environment

Charles Kilo; Dennis Horrigan; Marjorie Godfrey; John Wasson

How to Find the Job That's Right for You

Rebecca Ann Beach

Panning for Gold: How to Find Money in Your Practice

James Giovino

Departments

Editor's Page

How Do You Like Your Universal Coverage?
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

Understanding Medicare's Mental Health Treatment Limitation
Kent J. Moore

Improving Patient Care

'My Insurance Changed': The Negative Effects of Forced Discontinuity of Care
George E. Kikano ; Susan A. Flocke ; Robin Gotler ; Kurt C. Stange

Salaried FP

Evaluating Restrictive Covenants: Four Key Areas
Michael R. Burke

Balancing Act

Creating the Time of Your Life
Pamela J. Vaccaro

Coding & Documentation

• Mental Status Assessment • Telephone Care • Postoperative Management Only • Defining Risk • Defining HPI

Ask FPM

• Bad-Debt Write-Offs • Billing Company Rates • Time Cards and Efficiency

Practice Diary

• Fired! • Teresa, FNP • Rip Off

Monitor

• Keystone III: Family Physicians Reflect, Refocus • Clinical Guidelines vs. Reality • Student Loans • Good News for HMOs • What's an HMO? • Help Break the Habit • Cancer Risk Evaluation Online • Gift-Giving Ethics • Patient Trust • Survey Uncovers Volunarily Uninsured • More Time in No Time • Collecting Practice Data • Discussing Alternative Medicine

Letters

• The Value of Hands-On Therapy

• Changing Habits

• Computerized House Calls

• Getting With the Program

• Correction

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