Jan 2004

Features

Five Strategies for a More Vital Practice

Betsy Nicoletti

Creating a Successful After-Hours Clinic

James Quackenbush; Roger C. Shenkel; Victoria Schatzel

Three Steps to an Effective Practice Budget

Keith C. Borglum

Departments

Editor's Page

Two Ways of Looking at a Healthy Practice
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

CPT: What's in Store for 2004
Kent J. Moore

Improving Patient Care

Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Clinical Interventions
Philip J. Mohler

Computers

Creating an Electronic Filing Cabinet
Dean A. Seehusen

Balancing Act

If
William R. Phillips

Letters

• Stepping Up to the Challenge

• Recapturing Job Satisfaction

• Solo Is Best

• Reinventing Solo Practice

• Keeping Medicine Meaningful

• Focusing on the Positive

• Words of Encouragement

• "Overcoding" the Statistics

• Documenting History

• "Doing It All" With Open Access

Coding & Documentation

• Emergency Office Services • Coding Multiple Same-Day, Same-Diagnosis Visits • Excision vs. Destruction

Monitor

• Medicare Payments to Increase as Part of Rx Drug Bill • Malpractice Premium Rates Could Rise Despite New State Laws • Tracking Office-Visit Cycle Time • Reduce Inappropriate Antibiotic Usage With a SNAP

Ask FPM

• Selling a Practice • Calculating RVUs for FPs • What's Worth Scanning Into an EMR?

Practice Diary

• Mentors • Is the Customer Always Right? Part II

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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