Articles
Going Solo: Making the Leap
Why one family physician left the security of salaried practice to pursue ideal patient care completely on his own.
Improving Anticoagulation Management at the Point of Care
Stop treating lab results. These easy-to-use devices return the focus of warfarin therapy to treating the patient.
Test Your Coding Skills
Go head to head with our review panel in coding six troublesome progress notes.
Prescriptions: Why They’re So Complicated
Download in PDF format.
From the Editor
Getting Paid: Wrestling With the System
Don’t you just hate coding? I have to think you do – especially coding for evaluation and management (E/M) services. After all, articles on E/M coding are among the most popular FPM publishes.
Letters
Getting Paid
Seven Tips to Improve Your ICD-9 Coding for Diagnostic Tests
You can prevent costly claims denials by following these guidelines.
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Critical care on the day of admission | Allergy history | Developmental testing
Monitor
MONITOR
Six health plans to begin paying for quality | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Compliance date extended for HIPAA transactions rules | It’s official | Health insurance costs rise | The price of noncompliance | Complaints wanted | Free publicity online | Ignoring the…
Improving Patient Care
Results From the FPM Practice Self-Test
Family physicians rate how they are doing and what they think it takes to succeed.
Practice Diary
Ask FPM
ASK FPM
Creating a practice Web site | Unwilling support staff | Teaching-physician rules & physicals
Salaried FP
It’s Not Too Early to Prepare for Semi-Retirement
Adding a semi-retirement clause to your current contract will free you to broaden your horizons later.
Balancing Act
Precepting: Help Yourself While Helping Students
Has your enthusiasm for medicine begun to wane? Precepting may help improve your perspective.