MARCH 2002

Table of contents

On this page
Articles
From the Editor
Letters
Getting Paid
Coding & Documentation
Monitor
Improving Patient Care
Practice Diary
Ask FPM
Balancing Act

Articles

Part-time Practice Independent Practice Solo Practice

Going Solo: One Doc, One Room, One Year Later

Gordon Moore

This unorthodox practice, built on four “ideal” principles, is steadily proving itself a success.

Residency Hiring and Firing Management of Physicians

How to Recruit New Residency Graduates

James M. Giovino

Begin by understanding what makes them tick.

ToolEfficiency Referral and Consultation

Reducing Waits and Delays in the Referral Process

Mark Murray

By formalizing your referral relationships, you can make life easier for you and your patients.

From the Editor

Part-time Practice Independent Practice Overhead Solo Practice

Reducing Practice to Its Essentials

Robert L. Edsall

How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and woodlot!

Letters

Scope of Practice Residency Academic Practice

Time to re-examine physician training

Paul Henderson

Letter to the editor

Learning from those who’ve left family practice

Evaluation and Management Guidelines Documentation

Coding discrepancies

Jaymi S. Meyers

Letter to the Editor

Getting Paid

Health Plan Contracts Reimbursement Billing and Claims

11 Tips for More Productive Billing

Maria V. Ciletti

Keep cash flowing with these easy-to-implement strategies.

Coding & Documentation

CPT: Surgery Codes CPT: Office/Outpatient Codes

Answers to Your Questions

Kent J. Moore

Comparing excision codes | Extra prenatal visits | Coding flexible sigmoidoscopy

Monitor

Healthcare System Preventive Health

MONITOR

Renewed debate: Is there a physician shortage? | Severe vaccine shortage results in rationing | Why patients leave | Updating the Hippocratic oath | Waived test list available online | Get ready to haggle

Improving Patient Care

Pharmaceutical Industry Cost Effectiveness Drug Therapy Food and Drug Administration

What Every Physician Should Know About Generic Drugs

Phil Mohler, Steve Nolan

Are generic drugs second-class medicine or prudent prescribing?

Practice Diary

Physician-Hospital Relations Billing and Claims Paperwork Management Complementary and Alternative Medicine Collaborative Practice

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

Community relations | First refusal

Ask FPM

HIPAA Software Billing and Claims Employee Policies Staff Management

ASK FPM

David C. Kibbe, Keith Borglum

HIPAA translation software | Creating an employee manual

Balancing Act

Time Management

Time Management Tips That Work

Pamela J. Vaccaro

The best strategies first help you identify what really matters to you in life.

Resources

CME Quiz (AAFP members and print subscribers only)

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