Jul-Aug 2001

Features

Back to School: Options for Learning the Business of Medicine

Leigh Ann Backer

Depositions: Defending Your Care

Peter G. Teichman; Nicholas E. Bunch

A Problem Oriented Approach to the HIPAA Security Standards

David C. Kibbe

Departments

Editor's Page

Forget HIPAA; Think of Your Patients
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

When All Else Fails, Contact Your HCFA Regional Office
Kent J. Moore

Improving Patient Care

Responding to an Unfavorable Quality Assurance Audit
Richard Colgan

Computers

Buying Your First PDA
Stephanie Schneider ; Rita Kostecke ; Jeffrey Tokazewski

Balancing Act

Protecting the Time You've Got
Pamela J. Vaccaro

Coding & Documentation

• Coding Counseling • Reimbursement for Reviewing Records • Prolonged Services Code for Hospital Care • HepB/Hib Vaccine

Ask FPM

• Choosing a Consultant • The Lone Overcoder • EMTALA Defined

Practice Diary

• Panic Attack • Medical Records • Saying No

Monitor

• Patients' Rights Legislation Reaches Senate Floor • National FP Salaries • More Docs Job Hunting • Improving CPT Coding Accuracy • Aim for Tuesday • A Renewed Bureaucracy • Reporting Errors • Drug Spending • Needle in a Haystack • Persistence Pays • PDAs Become Standard Issue • Misery Loves Accuracy

Letters

• Priorities and Strategies

• How Secure is Your Palm-Top?

• Four Tips for EMR Integration

• Correction

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