Sep 2005

Features

Terminating a Patient: Is It Time to Part Ways?

Deanna R. Willis; Ann D. Zerr

Make Medical Notes Better and Faster With Macros

Melvin J. Knight

ICD-9 Changes: It's Time to Tend to Your Superbill

Cindy Hughes

Coding "Routine" Office Visits: 99213 or 99214?

Peter R. Jensen

Departments

From the Editor

New and Improved for You
Leigh Ann Backer

Editorial

Ten Hard Questions About the Future of the Specialty
Douglas Iliff

Letters

• Taking Care of Children

• Is Doing Good Good Enough?

• Diary Missed Already

• How to Change Behavior

• Helping Patients Help Themselves

• Clarification

Practice Pearls

• Streamline Patient Registration • Ensure Optimal Care for Obese Patients • Can Medicare be Charged More Than Other Payers? • Enhance Team Performance

Coding & Documentation

• Hypertension Management • Coding a B12 Injection • Biofeedback Training • House Visits to Hospice Patients • Billing for Initial Hospital Care • Coding a Newborn Office Visit

News & Trends

• Bill Would Prevent Pay Cuts, Launch Pay for Performance • New Law Aims to Shift Culture From Blame to Prevention • Who Are the Uninsured? • Drug Companies Agree to New Guidelines on Consumer Advertising • Web Site Offers Facts About Medicare's New Drug Benefit • Connecticut Docs Sue United and Oxford for Coercion • Wellpoint Settles With Physicians for $198 Million • FP Income • Free EHR Offered to Physicians

The Last Word

Meet Dr. Wonderful
Scott E. Moser ; John Dorsch

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