JUNE 2002

By acknowledging that not all call is created equal, one group has made its call schedule less contentious.

How successful is your practice at meeting the needs of diverse patients? These 10 tips can help you improve.

These tried-and-true techniques will increase revenue, reduce expenses and improve satisfaction with your practice.

When you hear about waste in health care these days, it seems often to be in the company of fraud and abuse, as in the FBI's warm invitation, “Anyone with information on health care fraud, waste or abuse may … call the HHS-OIG hotline, 1–800-HHS-TIPS.”1 I'm not sure what the…

Letter to the Editor

Here's how to get paid for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and medical nutrition therapy.

Coding E/M services in addition to other services | Vision test + annual exam? | Compazine injection | Interpreting an ECG

Malpractice insurance rates on the rise | Physicians challenge insurers over payment issues | Why health care costs are rising | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Fixing the Medicare fee schedule | Money isn't everything | $10 for your…

Sometimes, the best solutions to a practice's problems are as simple as two tin cans and a string.

A high index of suspicion | The ED | The annual exam

Protecting the patient information stored on your PDA isn't just a good idea; it could be required under HIPAA.

Patient refusal to release records | Documentation shortcuts | Bonus formula

Medicine is serious business, but a little humor may be just what you need when the going gets tough.