May/June 2010
Features
How Health Care Reform Will Affect Family Physicians
How to Be an Efficient and Effective Preceptor
Exam Documentation: Charting Within the Guidelines
The 12-Step Way to Reduce Practice Expenses: Part 2, Operational Efficiencies
Departments
From the Editor
Your Piece of the Deficit
Robert L. Edsall
Opinion
Why the Medicare Fee Schedule and RVUs Matter to Employed Family Physicians
Kent J. Moore
Practice Pearls
• Show "Signs" of Your Patient Commitment • Make Use of a Free, Medical Spanish Resource • Use Analogies to Increase Patient Compliance • Decorate Your Stirrup Covers • "Treat Every Defect as a Treasure" • Code Diagnoses With a Free, Web-Based Look-Up Tool • Improve Your Patients' Check-in Experience
Coding & Documentation
• Pre-Colonoscopy Visit • Punch Biopsy • Wound Repair Global Periods • Cryotherapy for Warts
Letters
• Letters to Health Plans That Send Letters
The Last Word
How to Clean Up in Family Medicine
Bobby J. Newbell
About the CME Quiz
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