Jun 2005
Features
Innovation in Practice: Six Ways to Harness the Power of Your Ideas
Five Tips for Generating Patient Satisfaction and Compliance
Expanding Your Practice Through Niche Services
Departments
Editor's Page
Electronic Records: Helping Other FPs Learn From Your Experience
Robert L. Edsall
Getting Paid
Are You Prepared to Defend Your Coding?
Cindy Hughes
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Trevor Stone
Improving Patient Care
Helping Needy Patients Get Needed Medications
Lisa M. McTavish
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Susie Gray
Computers
An Easy Way to Evaluate Software for Your PDA
Robert C. Oh
Balancing Act
Handling Administrative Burdens
Jennifer E. Frank
Letters
Alternative Treatments Merit Our Attention, Study
Coding & Documentation
CPT Code for Tick Removal Documentation for Review of Systems 99283 for an Urgent Care Visit Prothrombin Time Billing for Arthrocentesis Billing for Cervical Biopsy
Monitor
E-mail Consults Get Thumbs-Up Practice Pearl From Here and There Community-based Project Offers Help With Depression Coding Small Practices Struggle to Adopt Quality Improvement Methods
Ask FPM
Insurers Must Come Clean to Get Medical Records How to Handle Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) Social Security Number Not Always Necessary, but Helpful
Practice Diary
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Lost to Follow Up
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