Oct 2004

Features

Can You Negotiate Better Reimbursement?

Gregory J. Mertz

An Introduction to Tablet PCs

Ronald Machado

Asthma Days: An Approach to Planned Asthma Care for Family Physicians

Kurt Elward

Departments

Editor's Page

High-Energy, High-Return Practice
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

Understanding When to Use Modifier -25
Thomas A. Felger ; Marie Felger

Improving Patient Care

A Tool For Evaluating Patients With Cold Symptoms
Thomas J. Weida

Balancing Act

The Big Deal About Small Talk
Carla Jardim

Coding & Documentation

• CPT's Pharmacologic Management Code • ECG Code for Symptomatic Patients • Biopsy Code 11100 • Cryotherapy for Multiple Warts • Failed Venipuncture • CPT Codes for Wound Care • Reporting INR • Trigger-point Injection Codes • ICD-9 Code for a TB Test

Ask FPM

• Visitors in the Office • Getting Paid for Depression Care • Signing a Contract Addendum • Employment for Residents

Practice Diary

• Family Medicine • Pearl

Monitor

• Investing in IT Could Get Easier • FP Income Comparisons

Letters

• Determining a Proper Sample Size

• Evaluating Clinical Literature

• Putting the Family in Family Medicine

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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