Oct 2006
Features
Managed Care Administrative Tasks: Cutting the Red Tape
Sports Physicals: A Coding Conundrum
Taming the Sample Closet
How to Improve the Quality of Waived Tests
Grade Your Payers: The AAFP/FPM Survey of Physicians' Experiences With Third-Party Payers
Get Ready for the Revised CMS-1500 Claim Form
Departments
From the Editor
Hand Your Health Plans a Report Card
Robert L. Edsall
Letters
Documenting Away a Malpractice Suit
Prescribing Decisions Should Consider Cost
Explaining the Benefits of Vaccinations
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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