Jan 2001

Features

The Future of Health Care Financing

Brandi White

Interviewing 101

Rebecca Ann Beach

Seven Steps to Medicare Compliance

Mark S. Kennedy

Electronic Medical Records: The FPM Vendor Survey

Susan Rehm; Susan Kraft

Departments

Editor's Page

The EMR: Not Just a Computerized Chart
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

New Year, New Codes: Highlights From CPT and HCPCS 2001
Kent J. Moore

Improving Patient Care

13 Months of Quality Improvement: Did It Work?
Brandi White

Balancing Act

Why Working Smarter Isn't Working Anymore
Pamela J. Vaccaro

Coding & Documentation

• Well-Child Visits • Teaching-Physician Services • Antepartum Care Only • E/M or Consult? • Nursing Facility Consult • Typhoid Vaccine • ED Consult • Interpreting Outside Lab Work

Ask FPM

• Accounting for Capitation Payments • Employment Contracts • Payment for Hospital Committee Work • Starting a Practice

Practice Diary

• Paperwork • Professional Courtesy • Urgent Care Without Walls

Monitor

• Is Quality of Care Getting More Difficult to Provide? • Inflation Returns to Health Care; Workers Less Concerned • Retained Earnings • Overwhelmed by Medical Literature? • The Job-Shopping Employee • Managing Your Stress • More Work, Not Much More Pay • National Database Flawed • Can Insurers Sue Patients? • Healing the Healer • Surfing for Health • The Cost of Unhealthy Habits • Privacy, Please • Physician Assistant Census • Fitness Pays ...

Letters

• Group Inefficiency

• Are Same-Day Visits the Answer?

• Questionable Terminology

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