FEBRUARY 2001

Looking at your system through the eyes of a patient will help you understand what you need.

Once a year, spend a day away from the office to invest in meaningful conversation about the direction of your practice.

Perhaps the road less traveled is the right career path for you. Here are more than a dozen ideas to get you started.

Here’s an easy way to gauge how well your practice is doing in everything from quality of care to quality of claims.

As I said in a recent Editor’s Page, we really do live by the motto on the cover when we plan an issue of Family Practice Management: “Tools for Today’s Family Physician.” An article may be something you read and think about, but a tool is something you adopt and use. Many of…

As family physicians, we all share certain characteristics, such as a predisposition to focus on the whole person and an ability to handle the vast majority of our patients’ health needs and to help coordinate their care. Beyond those generalities, though, our practices may…

Here’s how to help your patients without violating fraud and abuse laws.

Pneumococcal vaccinations and flu shots | Radiology consults | Day two of a three-day observation stay | Prolonged services or critical care maximums | “Significant, separately identifiable” E/M service

Even the best preventive medicine tools won’t work until physicians are convinced they’re worth using.

Getting squeezed | Teresa, FNP | Risk managers

Setting up a practice | Closing time | Physician departure letter

This quick time-management exercise will show you exactly where you’re spending the 168 hours of your week.