Mar 2006

Features

Creating a High-Performing Clinical Team

Gordon Moore

EHRs in the Exam Room: Tips on Patient-Centered Care

William B. Ventres; Sarah Kooienga; Ryan Marlin

Patient Balances: Getting to the Root of the Problem

Kristen Dillon

Implementing Open-Access Scheduling in an Academic Practice

Jeffrey R. Steinbauer; Karla Korell; Jennifer Erdin; Stephen J. Spann

How Consumer-Driven Health Plans Will Affect Your Practice

Brandi White

Departments

From the Editor

Fishing for 'Pearls'
Robert L. Edsall

Editorial

Disabled ... or Otherwise Enabled?
James L. Glazer

Letters

• Medicare Part D

• 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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