Oct 2006

Features

Managed Care Administrative Tasks: Cutting the Red Tape

Mara Reichman

Sports Physicals: A Coding Conundrum

Cindy Hughes

Taming the Sample Closet

Mitchell L. Cohen

How to Improve the Quality of Waived Tests

Barbara Mitchell; Cheryl Murray

Grade Your Payers: The AAFP/FPM Survey of Physicians' Experiences With Third-Party Payers

Get Ready for the Revised CMS-1500 Claim Form

Cindy Hughes

Departments

From the Editor

Hand Your Health Plans a Report Card
Robert L. Edsall

Letters

• Documenting Away a Malpractice Suit

• The Collections Treadmill

• Prescribing Decisions Should Consider Cost

• Dress Like Professionals

• Diagnosis Du Jour

• Explaining the Benefits of Vaccinations

• Clarification

Practice Pearls

• Offer Evening Hours • Take Your Staff to Lunch • Seek Performance Feedback • Conduct Fire Drills • Encourage Staff to Identify Problems

Coding & Documentation

• Calculating Face-to-Face Time • Billing for Medication Refills • Preventive and E/M Services at the Same Visit • Discontinued Procedures • Neonatal Initial Critical Care • Defining Emergency Office Services • Billing for Nutritionist Services • Vaccine Administration • Covering for a Colleague

News & Trends

• Physicians Brace for Medicare Pay Cut in 2007 • Docs Get Raises While Groups Fight Losses

The Last Word

Comfort Always
William E. Cayley, Jr.

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