Sep 2005
Features
Terminating a Patient: Is It Time to Part Ways?
Make Medical Notes Better and Faster With Macros
ICD-9 Changes: It's Time to Tend to Your Superbill
Coding "Routine" Office Visits: 99213 or 99214?
Departments
From the Editor
New and Improved for You
Leigh Ann Backer
Editorial
Ten Hard Questions About the Future of the Specialty
Douglas Iliff
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
Practice Pearls
Streamline Patient Registration Ensure Optimal Care for Obese Patients Can Medicare be Charged More Than Other Payers? Enhance Team Performance
Letters
Helping Patients Help Themselves
The Last Word
Meet Dr. Wonderful
Scott E. Moser
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John Dorsch
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