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Call RVUs: One Way to Make Call More Equitable

Allen Daugird

By acknowledging that not all call is created equal, one group has made its call schedule less contentious.

Strategies for Better Patient Flow and Cycle Time

Leigh Ann Backer

These tried-and-true techniques will increase revenue, reduce expenses and improve satisfaction with your practice.

EDITOR'S PAGE

Is Your Practice Wasting Away?

Robert L. Edsall

When you hear about waste in health care these days, it seems often to be in the company of fraud and abuse, as in the FBI's warm invitation, “Anyone with information on health care fraud, waste or abuse may … call the HHS-OIG hotline, 1–800-HHS-TIPS.”1 I'm not sure what the...

LETTERS

Thank you

Ann D. Thomas

EMR costs

James S. Waldron

GETTING PAID

New Medicare Payment Opportunities

Kent J. Moore

Here's how to get paid for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and medical nutrition therapy.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

Coding E/M services in addition to other services | Vision test + annual exam? | Compazine injection | Interpreting an ECG

MONITOR

MONITOR

Malpractice insurance rates on the rise | Physicians challenge insurers over payment issues | Why health care costs are rising | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Fixing the Medicare fee schedule | Money isn't everything | $10 for...

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE PRACTICE DIARY

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

A high index of suspicion | The ED | The annual exam

COMPUTERS

Security Software for Hand-Held Computers

K. Meg Morrison

Protecting the patient information stored on your PDA isn't just a good idea; it could be required under HIPAA.

ASK FPM

ASK FPM

Jeffrey B. Miller, Jack Jue, Jr., George Conomikes

Patient refusal to release records | Documentation shortcuts | Bonus formula

BALANCING ACT

Adding a Dose of Levity to Practice

Kent J. Moore

Medicine is serious business, but a little humor may be just what you need when the going gets tough.



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