Jun 2005

Features

Innovation in Practice: Six Ways to Harness the Power of Your Ideas

Scott Endsley; Margaret Kirkegaard; Michael K. Magill; John M. Hickner

Five Tips for Generating Patient Satisfaction and Compliance

Manoj Pawar

Expanding Your Practice Through Niche Services

Mara Reichman

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 ; Trevor Stone

Improving Patient Care

Helping Needy Patients Get Needed Medications
Lisa M. McTavish ; 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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