Articles
A Refresher on Medicare and Concurrent Care
Here’s how to get paid when you’re not the only doctor in the hospital room.
Look Beyond Your Practice’s Bottom Line
Two tools – gap analysis and root cause analysis – can work together to tell you where and why you might be lagging financially.
Take Your Personal Digital Assistant to the Next Level
Move beyond the basics with easy-to-learn programs that manage patient data.
Choosing the Right Practice Entity
How you structure your practice can have big consequences when it comes to liability and taxes.
Improving Chronic Illness Care: Lessons Learned in a Private Practice
The chronic care model offers a proactive, organized approach that can improve outcomes and satisfaction, but no paradigm shift comes easy.
From the Editor
Chronic Care in an Acutely III System
Taking the long view in a short-sighted world takes courage and commitment.
Opinion
1-800-Chronic Disease Management
Primary care physicians should be doing chronic disease management, and it should be a billable service.
Letters
No easy answers to “Ten Hard Questions”
FPM letter
Your clinical questions answered
FPM letter
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Coding an initial consultation | “Worried well” exam | Sports physicals for students | Billing for care plan oversight
News & Trends
NEWS & TRENDS
Humana settles with physicians | Health plans vs. banks: Who treats their customers better? | Delegates debate recertification, health plan hassles, retail clinics | Project focuses on billing complexities | Study finds modest improvement with P4P programs
Practice Pearls
PRACTICE PEARLS
Make scheduling job No. 1 | Implement disease-specific dictation reminders | Find the Medicare allowable for a particular service | Surprise your staff with extra paid time off | Systematize exam room restocking | Don’t let your numbers tell the story | Make well-informed…
The Last Word
So How Are You Doing?
After facing a serious illness, one physician found new meaning in this common question.