JULY / AUGUST 2003

These two tools can help improve your care and documentation.

If you’ve got a clinical question and want an immediate answer based on the most current and valid information available, check out these Web sites.

By gathering the right people, using your time wisely and focusing on action, you’ll conduct meetings everyone will want to attend.

A clear, deliberate, consistent approach will beat the alternative every time.

I am particularly pleased to be able to offer you this issue’s cover story by Leif I. Solberg, MD, both because it carries a message that is vital to family physicians today and because it articulates clearly a major theme of Family Practice Management – that systematic…

Letter to the editor

Letter to the editor

These strategies will help you minimize claims delays and denials and revive your practice’s revenues.

Observation status and consultations | Coding the treatment of depression | Medicare certification and recertification | Venipuncture | Reimbursement for a surgical tray | CPT code for semen analysis | Paperwork codes | Counseling codes | Urine sample & 99211

Physicians lobby to stop more Medicare payment cuts | Clinical support staff salaries | Solutions proposed to ease malpractice insurance crisis | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Thirty ways to be safe | What would you do with $142? | Health care on the Net | Would you…

Home visits aren’t just a thing of the past. They can benefit patients and doctors, even today.

Is the customer always right? | Unprofessional conduct

Vacation coverage | Disability insurance | Discouraging no-shows

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