Jan 2003

Features

Coding Better for Better Reimbursement

Douglas E. Henley

Choosing Between Clinical Practice and Administration

Carrie Nankervis

Providing Charity Care: A Primer on Liability Risk

Howard Shapiro

Implementing Change: From Ideas to Reality

Jack Silversin; Mary Jane Kornacki

Departments

Editor's Page

Small Change: Nickel and Dime Stuff Can Make a Difference
Robert L. Edsall

Editorial

FPM and the Family Physician's Journey to Medical Excellence
Marc L. Rivo

Getting Paid

CPT Coding Update for 2003
Kent J. Moore

Improving Patient Care

Open Access as an Alternative to Patient Combat
John J. Giannone

Computers

10 Quick Tips for a More User-Friendly PDA
Anil Chandrashekhar

Balancing Act

Staying in the Loop at Work
Evelyn Fang

Letters

• Successful Test-result Tracking

• Refills: Clinical Not Clerical

• Correction

Coding & Documentation

• 1995 or 1997 Guidelines? • HIV Counseling • Pure Tone Testing: 92551 or 92552? • Transfer With Discharge and Admission • Home Visit Codes for Homebound Patients • Using Modifiers -GZ and -GY • Postpartum Care • Ambulatory Blood-pressure Monitoring • Injection Code 20550

Monitor

• Patients, Physicians Underestimate Medical Errors • Medicare Payment Cuts Yet to Be Corrected • Primary Care Patient Safety Research Under Way • Stop Searching • Learn About Your Patients

Ask FPM

• Keeping Old Patient Records • Cash-only Practice • Referring to MAs as Nurses

Practice Diary

• Another Panic Attack • Horses vs. Zebras III

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