Jun 2001

Features

Making Your Balance Sheet Work For You

F. Michael Arnow; George Xakellis

Managing Your Boss

Thomas J. Zuber

Making Sense of Health Plan Denials

James Bare

Departments

Editor's Page

Toward a More Useful Journal
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

Medicare Expands Preventive Screening Benefits
Kent J. Moore

Patient Education

Understanding Your Insurance Coverage
James Bare

Improving Patient Care

Rx for Lost Prescriptions
William Davis

Computers

Using a Scanner for Easier Forms Completion
Matthew Levin

How a Palm-Top Computer Can Help You at the Point of Care
Marc Chasin

Balancing Act

Life Balance: 17 Tips From Doctors, for Doctors
Jennifer S. Bush

Letters

• Electronic Transmissions: HIPAA's Definition

• Call Me Doctor, Please

• Life as a "Free-Range Physician"

• Medicare Angst

• Coding Observation Stays

Coding & Documentation

• Telephone Care Reimbursement • Lead-Toxicity Screening • Inpatient Admission • Emergencies in the Office • ICD-9 Code for Fibromyalgia • CLIA-Waived Strep Test

Monitor

• Physicians Urged to Practice Evidence-Based Medicine • An Analogy is Like a Car • Reduce Your Denial Rate • Can I Get a Witness? • Out-of-Pocket Spending • Nutritional Supplements • Hello, MAMA

Ask FPM

• Charting With PDAs • Part-Time Call Schedules • Teaching Physician Rules

Practice Diary

• The Clavicle: Part II • Curbside Consult • Organ Donation

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