Sep 2007
Features
ICD-9 Changes: New Codes of Note
The Ideal Medical Practice Model: Improving Efficiency, Quality, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Seven Strategies for Creating a More Efficient Practice
Quick Ways to Maximize Your Office Space
The Medical Home: An Idea Whose Time Has Come ... Again
Departments
From the Editor
Is Family Medicine Ready for the Home?
Robert L. Edsall
Letters
Practice Pearls
Encourage Employees to Increase Flu Shot Numbers Start a Farmer's Market at Your Office Prepare for Patient Visits With a "Cheat Sheet" Use Birthdays for Preventive Services Reminders Store High-Risk Medication Samples in Red Boxes Help Your Patients Organize Multiple Medications
Coding & Documentation
Reporting a Vaccine-Only Visit Group Visits and Medicare Applying Dressing to a Burn Shared Visits as Consultations? Polyp Removal During a Colonoscopy
News & Trends
Supply of Free Antibiotics Grows Officials Challenge Insurers' Ratings of Doctors Medical Groups' Profits Surge in West
The Last Word
Rewarding Failure
Jennifer E. Frank
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