May 2002

Features

Coding and Billing Software for Palm-Top Computers

K. Meg Morrison

Answers to Your Questions on Solo, Idealized Practice

Gordon Moore

HIPAA Compliance: How to Get an Extension

David C. Kibbe

Enjoying Family Practice Despite It All

Sarah Smiley

Departments

Editor's Page

Call for Peer Reviewers
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

Dealing With Patients Who Don't Pay
Maria V. Ciletti

Improving Patient Care

Does Health Habit Advice Affect Patient Satisfaction?
Robin Gotler ; David A. Barzilai ; George E. Kikano ; Kurt C. Stange

Salaried FP

A Productivity Primer
Kent J. Moore

Balancing Act

Reconnecting With the Joy of Medicine
W. Jefferson Pendergrast, Jr. ; Jim Henry

Coding & Documentation

• Initial Hospital Care Codes • Peak-Flow Rate and E/M • Digital Nerve Block and Nail Removal

Ask FPM

• Benefits Trends • Medicare Recredentialing Forms • Collaborating With an NP

Practice Diary

• Taking Advantage • Low Overhead • Search and Rescue • Mentors

Monitor

• HIPAA Privacy Rules Await Proposed Changes • The Top 20 in 2000 • Family Practice Match Numbers Drop Slightly; Fill Rate Goes Up • Increase Revenue With Improved Coding • While They Wait

Letters

• Coding for Diagnostic Tests

• Practice Diary: The Real Deal

• Anticoagulation Device Accuracy

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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