Articles
Seven Reasons Family Doctors Get Sued and How to Reduce Your Risk
By adopting a risk-management mind-set, physicians can avert not only malpractice claims but also patient injury.
Sharing Maternity Care
Access to maternity care is a public health concern in many rural areas. Sharing care among physicians and other health care providers is one solution.
5 Steps to a Performance Evaluation System
Keep your staff productive and motivated by conducting regular performance evaluations.
From the Editor
How Do You Manage Your Malpractice Risk?
If your malpractice insurance premiums are threatening to bankrupt you, taking steps to reduce your malpractice risk may seem almost pointless. But if you ask yourself what could be worse than high malpractice premiums, one answer presents itself in short order: being sued or…
Letters
Getting Paid
Defining “Confined to the Home”
Medicare has clarified its criteria for determining whether a patient is homebound.
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Type-2 diabetes & insulin | ECG & E/M | Removal of skin lesions | Retirement community visit | Hospital observation to inpatient status | Coding a tick bite | Ring removal | Sunday home visits | Confirmatory consultation codes | Cefobid
Monitor
MONITOR
Congress averts 4.4 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement | Are you over-prescribing antibiotics? | HIPAA compliance at eleventh hour | Investing in technology to reduce errors | Clueless on drug costs | Medicare plays favorites | Groups slow to adopt care-management processes
Improving Patient Care
Maintaining a Medication List in the Chart
A simple medication list updated at each visit can prevent errors – and make your job easier.
Practice Diary
Computers
An Introduction to Online CME
Taking CME courses online doesn’t require fancy computer equipment, just some spare time and a comfortable chair.
Ask FPM
ASK FPM
Productivity-based salary reductions | Fraudulent hospital-discharge coding? | Preventing embezzlement