Nov-Dec 2001

Features

The Ins and Outs of "Incident-To" Reimbursement

Alice G. Gosfield

What the HIPAA Transaction and Code Set Standards Will Mean for Your Practice

David C. Kibbe

Nine Steps to a Strategic Marketing Plan

Rebecca Anwar; Judy Capko

Departments

Editor's Page

Doing the Right Things: Eliminating Errors from Practice
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

Four Medicare Myths Exposed
Kent J. Moore

Improving Patient Care

A Tool for Safely Treating Chronic Pain
Peter G. Teichman

Balancing Act

Keeping a Survival Journal
Virginia Mohl ; Lucille Marchand

Coding & Documentation

• Medical Decision Making Requirements • Signing Off on Incident-To Services • Immunization Codes • Coding an Outpatient Hospice Visit • Physician Venipuncture • Awaiting Nursing Home Placement

Ask FPM

• Write-Offs for FPs • Appropriate Staffing • Closed to New Medicaid Patients

Practice Diary

• Stress Reaction • Networking • Doctor Cars

Monitor

• FPs Call for Change After Families Experience Suboptimal Care • Clinical Guidelines Need Updating • Protecting Patients' Information • Mystery Patients • Demand for FPs Steady • Don't Mess With Texas • Credentialing Made Easier • Lamictal 25 mg or Lamisil 250 mg? • Don't Ask the Expert • HIPAA Tramples the Constitution • Medicare Relief • Computerized by 2003

Letters

• Family Doctor's Role in Pain Management

• A New Direction

• An Alternative Financing Model

• PAs Offer Help, Not Hindrance

• Raise Reimbursement, Raise Student Interest

• Practice What They Teach?

• Correction

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