Mar 2006
Features
Creating a High-Performing Clinical Team
EHRs in the Exam Room: Tips on Patient-Centered Care
Patient Balances: Getting to the Root of the Problem
Implementing Open-Access Scheduling in an Academic Practice
How Consumer-Driven Health Plans Will Affect Your Practice
Departments
From the Editor
Fishing for 'Pearls'
Robert L. Edsall
Editorial
Disabled ... or Otherwise Enabled?
James L. Glazer
Letters
Rekindling the Fire, Continued
Medical Necessity and Level-IV Visits
Practice Pearls
Create a Coding Resource Guide Benchmark for Success Allot Salaries and Distributions Correctly Promote Professionalism Reduce Your Malpractice Risk
Coding & Documentation
Hospital Admission Following an Office Visit When PAs Perform Minor Surgical Procedures Emergency Office Services ICD-9 Code for Tick Removal Immunizations at a Preventive Visit Performing and Interpreting X-rays
News & Trends
Aetna Makes It Official: No More Bundling of E/M Codes Medicare Pilot Uses Care Coordinators to Manage Patients' Chronic Diseases Internists Predict "Impending Collapse of Primary Care" EHR Adoption Could Be Slower Than Expected FPs Implement New Approaches to Care Legal Opinion Supports FPs Who Perform Endoscopic Procedures
The Last Word
What to Do When the Thrill Is Gone
J. LeBron McBride
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