Jul-Aug 2001
Features
Back to School: Options for Learning the Business of Medicine
Depositions: Defending Your Care
A Problem Oriented Approach to the HIPAA Security Standards
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
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Rita Kostecke
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Jeffrey Tokazewski
Balancing Act
Protecting the Time You've Got
Pamela J. Vaccaro
Letters
• How Secure is Your Palm-Top?
• Four Tips for EMR Integration
Coding & Documentation
• Coding Counseling • Reimbursement for Reviewing Records • Prolonged Services Code for Hospital Care • HepB/Hib Vaccine
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
Ask FPM
• Choosing a Consultant • The Lone Overcoder • EMTALA Defined
Practice Diary
• Panic Attack • Medical Records • Saying No
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