FEBRUARY 2007

The list of covered services has grown significantly in the last 10 years and includes some additions for 2007.

When this practice's initial success began to fade, the physicians and staff had to rethink “business as usual.”

These clues can help you avoid the pitfalls you'll encounter on your EHR journey.

Safe medication use is achievable and affordable if you follow these recommendations.

'Tis better to disrupt than be disrupted.

If family medicine stops being “a specialty in breadth,” is it still family medicine?

Letter to the Editor

Quality-based compensation may have limited use, suggests study | Health care spending still growing but slowing | Insurer suspends its physician rating system | Free e-prescribing program offered online | Report examines ‘better-performing’ groups | Aetna sets up personal…

Documenting modifier -25 services | Coding for venipuncture | Medication refills | Coding for services in a residency program | Hospital discharge | Documentation shortcuts | Coding for diphenhydramine hydrochloride | Multiple nebulizer treatments

Share freebies with employees | Manage your perfectionism | Offer criticism with care | Consider clinical trials | Be aware of your impact

Sometimes a patient's reasons for leaving aren't as bad as we might imagine.