Feb 2002

Features

Going Solo: Making the Leap

Gordon Moore

Improving Anticoagulation Management at the Point of Care

Anne E. Caffee; Peter G. Teichman

Test Your Coding Skills

Olivia K. Maresh

Departments

Editor's Page

Getting Paid: Wrestling With the System
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

Seven Tips to Improve Your ICD-9 Coding for Diagnostic Tests
Kent J. Moore

Patient Education

Prescriptions: Why They're So Complicated
James Bare

Improving Patient Care

Results From the FPM Practice Self-Test
Brandi White

Salaried FP

It's Not Too Early to Prepare for Semi-Retirement
Vasilios J. Kalogredis

Balancing Act

Precepting: Help Yourself While Helping Medical Students
Jeff Suzewits

Letters

• Majority of Visits Equal 99214

• HIPAA and Mental Health Notes

• Praise for Help With 99214s

Coding & Documentation

• Critical Care on the Day of Admission • Allergy History • Developmental Testing

Monitor

• Six Health Plans to Begin Paying for Quality • Increase Harmony in Your Practice • Compliance Date Extended for HIPAA Transactions Rules

Ask FPM

• Creating a Practice Web Site • Unwilling Support Staff • Teaching-Physician Rules & Physicals

Practice Diary

• Horses vs. Zebras II • Moving On • Excuses

About the CME Quiz

AAFP members and FPM subscribers can take the CME quiz online at http://www.aafp.org/fpmquiz.

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