May 2001

Features

'Work Smarter, Not Harder' to Save Your Practice Money

Gregory J. Mertz

Electronic Paper & Pencil: How to Develop Your Own Low-Cost Electronic Medical Record

Jack Jue; Anthony F. Jerant

Coping With the Stress of Being Sued

Chantal M.L.R. Brazeau

Departments

Editor's Page

Tech Shock and the Virtues of Incrementalism
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

An Update on Certifying Home Health Care
Kent J. Moore

Improving Patient Care

Putting Clinical Guidelines Into Practice
Brian Schulte ; Erin L. O'Hea ; Patricia Darling

Computers

Using Your Palm-Top's Date Book as a Reminder System
Matt Lewis

Balancing Act

Spirituality and Your Practice
William Zeckhausen

Coding & Documentation

• E/M Code + Procedure Code? • "Incident to" Billing • Normal Newborn Care • Lab Results Review, Revisited

Ask FPM

• Charging for Forms • Patient Appointment Software • Practice Start-Up Resources • RVUs and Compensation

Practice Diary

• Anthony • On-The-Job Training • Self-Care

Monitor

• Family Practice Match Numbers Drop Again • HIPAA Privacy Rules Take Effect • Ask "Why" Five Times • Improving the History and Exam • Warning! Poor Employee Performance • Back to the Basics • Great Expectations • Nature and Well-Being • Health Care Racketeering • How Would You Fix Medicare? • Continuity Works • Ask Your Rabbi • Medicaid's Mysteries Revealed

Letters

• Compliance: A Lose-Lose Situation?

• Coding Group Visits

• Adapting Flow Sheets

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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