SEPTEMBER 2002

This approach to family practice assures continuity of care for your patients as well as a healthy life balance and a decent paycheck for you.

Taking the time to plan ahead will improve your chances of selecting a facility that meets your needs and those of your patients.

While there’s no one staffing formula that fits every practice, industry benchmarks can point you in the right direction.

Do you find your scope of practice yielding to outside pressure? Certainly, the combined weight of outrageous malpractice premiums, decreasing reimbursement, hospitalist programs, privileging problems and competition from limited specialists (to name a few of the pressures) can…

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the editor

Correction - How to Get All the 99214s You Deserve

The rules enable you to bill Medicare patients when Medicare will not pay because it determines a service is not medically necessary.

Coding a preoperative visit | Coding group medical visits | CPT code for the rapid flu test | ICD-9 code for sports physicals | Manipulation & E/M

HIPAA privacy rule modified | Liability crisis fuels talk of reform | An average workweek | Home sweet home | Simple fixes overlooked | $1.5 million for hospitals | White coat phobia

Are irrational office procedures contributing to your phone problem?

Bartering | Trauma! | Toothache

Sick-leave policy for physicians and midlevel providers | Balancing semi-retirement and overhead costs | Open-access scheduling

For those days when being a family physician feels more like a burden than a calling, consider this advice from your colleagues.