Articles
Should You Treat Yourself, Family or Friends?
It boils down to a personal decision in most situations.
What You Need to Know About the Medicare Prescription Drug Act
Congress passed the legislation. Now physicians must learn the details.
Answers to Your Questions About Same-Day Scheduling
The concept’s founder explains how to do “today’s work today” and improve patient access to your practice.
From the Editor
Open Access: Nothing This Good Can Be Easy
Practice is too complicated for improvements to be simple.
Opinion
Establishing Rules of the Road for Pharmaceutical Representatives
Being up-front can help prevent back-door tactics.
Letters
Getting Paid
The Value of a Coding Education
This practice sent an employee to coding school and saw dramatic revenue gains.
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Coding forms completion | An office visit with multiple procedures | Venipuncture on a Medicare patient | Coding a pre-operative, consultative exam | Trigger-point injections | Interpreting diagnostic tests | Critical-care transport | “Reviewing” vs. “interpreting” an X-ray
Monitor
MONITOR
Physicians’ quality report cards to go public | Medicare pay-for-performance demo under way | Health care professionals unlikely to address colleagues’ errors | Physicians sue health plan over fee reduction
Improving Patient Care
A Tool for Evaluating Patients With Knee Injury
The most widely used tests may not be the most effective.
Practice Diary
Ask FPM
ASK FPM
Semi-retirement within a productivity-based group | Salary comparison resources | Appointment of counsel
Computers
How to Cure a Bad Case of Fax-o-rrhea
Feeling overwhelmed by faxes? Try this doctor’s fix: a mix of technology and diplomacy.
Balancing Act
How to Become a Defensive Filer
Saving information you don’t need could be costing you more than you think.