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The Future of Health Care Financing

Brandi White

In most sectors of the U.S. economy, consumers control their dollars. What if that were to happen in health care?

Interviewing 101

Rebecca Ann Beach

An on-site interview is your opportunity to assess how well your values and those of a potential employer align.

Seven Steps to Medicare Compliance

Mark S. Kennedy

The OIG’s voluntary compliance guidance can help your solo or small group practice prevent fraud and abuse.

Electronic Medical Records: The FPM Vendor Survey

Susan Rehm, Susan Kraft

The advent of Internet-based EMR systems gives you new options. Here we report on 23 conventional systems and five Internet-based ones.

EDITOR’S PAGE

The EMR: Not Just a Computerized Chart

Robert L. Edsall

What do you think of when you think of electronic medical records (EMRs)? Your answer would almost certainly depend to a surprising degree on whether you already have experience with an EMR system. The fact is that EMRs have the potential to transform practice so thoroughly...

LETTERS GETTING PAID

New Year, New Codes: Highlights From CPT and HCPCS 2001

Kent J. Moore

Changes in critical care, care plan oversight, lab services and vaccines are most likely to affect family physicians.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Coding and Documentation

Kent J. Moore

Well-child visits | Teaching-physician services | Antepartum care only | E/M or consult? | Nursing facility consult | Typhoid vaccine | ED consult | Interpreting outside lab work

MONITOR

Monitor

Is quality of care getting more difficult to provide? | Inflation returns to health care; workers less concerned | Practice Pearls from here and there | More work, not much more pay | National database flawed | Can insurers sue patients? | Healing the healer | Surfing for...

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE

13 Months of Quality Improvement: Did It Work?

Brandi White

When 45 doctors and their staffs decide to redesign their diabetes care system, success comes one step at a time.

PRACTICE DIARY

Practice Diary

Sanford J. Brown

Paperwork | Professional courtesy | Urgent care without walls

ASK FPM

Ask FPM

Kenneth Bowden, Dorothy R. Sweeney, Alice G. Gosfield, Gail Levy

Accounting for capitation payments | Employment contracts | Payment for hospital committee work | Starting a practice

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