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Making Quality and Service Pay: Part 2, The External Environment

Charles M. Kilo, Dennis Horrigan, Marjorie Godfrey, John Wasson

Across the country, insurers are beginning to pay physicians for improved quality and service. They'll get there faster with your help.

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How Do You Like Your Universal Coverage?

Robert L. Edsall

I wanted to give you a heads up: The American Academy of Family Physicians is preparing a paper on universal coverage for health care, which should be published soon, if it's not already available by the time you read this. This is part of a two-year effort that may result in...

LETTERS GETTING PAID CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Coding and Documentation

Kent J. Moore

Mental status assessment | Telephone care | Postoperative management only | Defining risk | Defining HPI

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Keystone III: Family physicians reflect, refocus | Clinical guidelines vs. reality | Student loans | Good news for HMOs | What's an HMO? | Help break the habit | Cancer risk evaluation online | Gift-giving ethics | Patient trust | Survey uncovers voluntarily uninsured | <b...

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE PRACTICE DIARY

Practice Diary

Sanford J. Brown

Fired! | Teresa, FNP | Rip off

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Ask FPM

F. Michael Arnow, Tom McGuinness, Jack Valancy

Bad-debt write-offs | Billing company rates | Time cards and efficiency

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Creating the Time of Your Life

Pamela J. Vaccaro

If too many hassles and too much routine are taking the joy out of your life, perhaps you should rethink the way you view time.



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