CPT: What’s in Store for 2004?

Kent J. Moore

Multiple changes have been made to the vaccine codes.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

Emergency office services | Coding multiple same-day, same-diagnosis visits | Excision vs. destruction

Creating an Electronic Filing Cabinet

Dean A. Seehusen

Find out how to move the overflowing file cabinet in your office to a CD in your pocket.

Five Strategies for a More Vital Practice

Betsy Nicoletti

Frustrated with the status quo? Here’s how to take your practice from so-so to stellar.

Three Steps to an Effective Practice Budget

Keith Borglum

By tracking your expenses and comparing them to benchmarks, you can create a practice budget that's useful and easy to maintain.

Two Ways of Looking at a Healthy Practice

Robert L. Edsall

Follow your beliefs and your practice expenses. Both will lead you to a better practice.

Stepping up to the challenge

Debra Krieg

Recapturing job satisfaction

Jeff Brenner

Solo is best

Robert W. Shreck

Reinventing solo practice

Marsha McKay

Keeping medicine meaningful

Elizama Montalvo

Focusing on the positive

David Uirab

Words of encouragement

Paul Mensah

“Overcoding” the statistics

Gil Solomon

Documenting history

Susan Welsh, null CPC

“Doing it all” with open access

MONITOR

Medicare payments to increase as part of R_x drug bill | Malpractice premium rates could rise despite new state laws | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Discounts for computerization | Suit against health plans continues |...

Creating a Successful After-Hours Clinic

James Quackenbush, Roger Shenkel, Victoria Schatzel

If you’d like to tame your call load, increase patient satisfaction and make money while you sleep, consider opening an after-hours clinic.

Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Clinical Interventions

Phil Mohler

A 62-year-old male patient presents to your office for a routine checkup and asks whether he should be taking an aspirin a day to prevent heart attack. His wife apparently read this recommendation in a women’s magazine and asked him to seek your advice. The patient has no...

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

Mentors | Is the customer always right? Part II

ASK FPM

Keith Borglum, KentJ. Moore, JeffreyB. Miller

Selling a practice | Calculating RVUs for FPs | What’s worth scanning into an EMR?

If

William R. Phillips

If you can keep your head when one is crowning,