Articles
Breaking Even on Four Visits Per Day
Spurning health plan contracts enabled this practice to dramatically reduce overhead and fees while improving access for the uninsured.
Huddles: Improve Office Efficiency in Mere Minutes
Daily gatherings of your care team can help you meet daily challenges.
How to Manage Difficult Patient Encounters
These strategies will help you turn problematic encounters into productive ones.
Measuring for Medicare: The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative
The new initiative from CMS can add a little to your bottom line and prepare your office for future reporting programs.
A Report Card for 32 Payers: Not Making the Grade
In this survey of physicians' experiences, payers fall short.
From the Editor
‘Grade Your Payers’: Solo Docs Speak Up
If you're not feeling their pain, is it just because you're anesthetized?
Opinion
Do We Need Primary Care?
Here are six reasons to answer in the affirmative and to believe that the status quo is ripe for revolution.
Letters
News & Trends
NEWS & TRENDS
Payments on medical malpractice claims approach $4 billion | Senate committee investigates insurers' hard-sell tactics targeting seniors
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Preventive and problem-oriented services at the same visit | Pulmonary function testing | House calls for Medicare patients
Practice Pearls
PRACTICE PEARLS
Stay on top of documentation | Welcome your patients back to your practice | Use a template to improve your documentation | How to handle overpayments from insurers | Show appreciation for other departments
The Last Word
Balancing a Personal Life With OB Care
Family physicians can deliver babies and have a life, but not without setting some guidelines.
