Articles
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Emergency office services | Coding multiple same-day, same-diagnosis visits | Excision vs. destruction
Creating an Electronic Filing Cabinet
Find out how to move the overflowing file cabinet in your office to a CD in your pocket.
Five Strategies for a More Vital Practice
Frustrated with the status quo? Here’s how to take your practice from so-so to stellar.
Creating a Successful After-Hours Clinic
If you’d like to tame your call load, increase patient satisfaction and make money while you sleep, consider opening an after-hours clinic.
Three Steps to an Effective Practice Budget
By tracking your expenses and comparing them to benchmarks, you can create a practice budget that's useful and easy to maintain.
From the Editor
Two Ways of Looking at a Healthy Practice
Follow your beliefs and your practice expenses. Both will lead you to a better practice.
Letters
Monitor
MONITOR
Medicare payments to increase as part of R<sub>x</sub> drug bill | Malpractice premium rates could rise despite new state laws | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Discounts for computerization | Suit against health plans continues…
Improving Patient Care
Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Clinical Interventions
A 62-year-old male patient presents to your office for a routine checkup and asks whether he should be taking an aspirin a day to prevent heart attack. His wife apparently read this recommendation in a women’s magazine and asked him to seek your advice. The patient has no…
Practice Diary
Ask FPM
ASK FPM
Selling a practice | Calculating RVUs for FPs | What’s worth scanning into an EMR?