NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2001

If you work with nonphysician providers, you can’t afford to ignore these rules.

If there’s a silver lining to the HIPAA regulations, it’s here. These standards can save your practice time and money.

Here’s how to make sure both you and your patients know what makes your practice special.

Fortunately for family physicians, hospitals seem to have a monopoly on errors. At least that’s the impression one would glean from the literature on errors in medicine. One reason so little energy is spent on studying errors in ambulatory care is that errors in that realm seem…

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the editor

Letter to the Editor

These misconceptions could complicate your life and cost you money.

Medical decision making requirements | Signing off on incident-to services | Immunization codes | Coding an outpatient hospice visit | Physician venipuncture | Awaiting nursing home placement

FPs call for change after families experience suboptimal care | Clinical guidelines need updating | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Demand for FPs steady | Don’t mess with Texas | Credentialing made easier | Lamictal 25 mg or Lamisil…

A signed agreement can do a lot to prevent medication misuse while helping those sidelined by chronic pain.

Stress reaction | Networking | Doctor cars

Write-offs for FPs | Appropriate staffing | Closed to new Medicaid patients

Journal writing is the creative nourishment these physicians need to sustain themselves through endless busy days.