Oct 2001

Features

Starting a Revolution in Office-Based Care

Brandi White

Recognizing and Preventing Medication Diversion

B. Eliot Cole

How to Get All the 99214s You Deserve [2001]

Emily Hill

Departments

Editor's Page

Five Ways of Looking at a 99214
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

ICD-9: The Annual Update
Kent J. Moore

Improving Patient Care

30 Standardized Hospital Admission Orders
Robert M. Wiprud

Computers

Downloading Applications for Your PDA
Jeff Suzewits

Balancing Act

Reflections From a Family Physician's Daughter
Kathryn E. Phillips

Coding & Documentation

• Coding a Cold • B-12 With or Without E/M • Well-Child Checks • CPT for DOT

Ask FPM

• Notifying Patients of Test Results • Physician Office Labs

Practice Diary

• Rivulets Make a River • Patients Bearing Gifts • Helter Skelter

Monitor

• Nation Responds to Medical Needs in Wake of Attacks • HMOs Doing a Better Job, Not Good Enough • How to Appeal Denied Claims • Doctor's Orders • Bright Lights, Big City • Meanwhile ... • Medicare Updates • Compensation and RVUs • Charity Care Strong but Slipping • Clinical Preparedness • Quote ... Endquote

Letters

• Crossing PDA Platforms

• Need to Illustrate Respect

• Making HIPAA Make Sense

• Correction

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