Jul-Aug 2005

Features

How to Manage a Pertussis Outbreak in Your Practice

Michael Flanagan

How to Answer Your Clinical Questions More Efficiently

Jeff Weinfeld; Kate Finkelstein

Caring for Children: Re-examining the Family Physician's Role

Leigh Ann Backer

Departments

Editor's Page

Coming Soon: A New FPM
Robert L. Edsall

Getting Paid

What Makes a High-Earning Family Physician?
Jan Carter

Improving Patient Care

The A to Z of Cross-Cultural Medicine
William B. Ventres ; Robert Gobbo

Balancing Act

Prioritizing Your Incoming Messages
Anna K. Cox-Havron

Coding & Documentation

• Decision Making and 99215 • Billing Separate Services for OB Patients • Immune Globulin Injections • Dilated Eye Exams

Ask FPM

• Opting Out of Medicare • Negotiating Salary as a Percentage of Collections • Converting to Numerical Filing

Practice Diary

• CME • Informed Consent

Monitor

• Chronic Care Guidelines Prove Impossible to Follow • Bill Would Offer up to $15,000 for EHR Implementation • AMA, AAFP Take Note of Reimbursement Problems • Malpractice Award Caps Result in More Physicians, Better Access

Letters

• Rolls-Royces and Family Medicine

• Tests, Tests and More Tests

• "Welcome to Medicare" Visits

• Update

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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