Mar 2001

Features

Electronic Medical Records: 10 Questions I Didn't Know to Ask

Jaymi S. Meyers

Tips to Help Take the Hassle Out of Inpatient Utilization Review

David Schechter

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Primer

Terrence E. Steyer

What You Need to Know About HIPAA Now

David C. Kibbe

Departments

Editor's Page

Finally, a Medical Miracle
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

How to Stop Hemorrhaging Red Ink
Kent J. Moore

Improving Patient Care

Focus on the Family, Part 1: What Is Your Family Focus Style?
Robin Gotler ; Jack H. Medalie ; Stephen J. Zyzanski ; George E. Kikano ; Louise S. Acheson ; Kurt C. Stange

Computers

Getting More From a Voice Recognition System
Melvin J. Knight

Balancing Act

Healing Bodies and Souls: A Medical Missionary's Story
John Spicer

Letters

• Universal Coverage Concerns

• No-Win Coding

• Rx Advertisements

• Is This Quality?

• Off the Mark

• Corrections

Coding & Documentation

• Initial Observation Care + Initial Hospital Care • Calculating Prolonged Services • Preventive Medicine Codes • Sebaceous Cyst Excision

Monitor

• Docs Sue Six Health Plans • National Outcomes Database in the Works • Reducing Errors in Primary Care • Better Doctor-Patient Relationships • Making a Grand Departure • Average Salary Offerings • Group Visits • Oh, Canada • I Just Work Here • Illness Prediction • Costly Noncompliance • Spending Spree • You Gotta Have Faith

Ask FPM

• FTEs per Physician • Disposing of Patient Records • Medical Equipment for Sale • Releasing Workers' Comp Records

Practice Diary

• Out of the Barn • Medical Advice • Legalese

About the CME Quiz

AAFP members and FPM subscribers can take the CME quiz online at http://www.aafp.org/fpmquiz.

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