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Coding Better for Better Reimbursement

Douglas E. Henley

Your work is worth more than you think. You just need to document and code it better.

Providing Charity Care: A Primer on Liability Risk

Howard B. Shapiro

If there’s a bright spot in the medical liability system, it’s in the laws protecting physicians who volunteer to care for the uninsured.

Implementing Change: From Ideas to Reality

Jack Silversin, Mary Jane Kornacki

How do you get your group to defy the status quo and act on good ideas? It starts with vision, teamwork and some fire in the belly.

EDITOR’S PAGE

Small Change: Nickel and Dime Stuff Can Make a Difference

Robert L. Edsall

January. This is supposed to be a month of new beginnings, new promise, new possibilities and New Year’s resolutions. Do you feel invigorated and optimistic – or just cold?

EDITORIAL

FPM and the Family Physician’s Journey to Medical Excellence

Marc L. Rivo

In 1996, I was selected as FPM’s medical editor to replace Joseph Scherger, MD, MPH, upon his election to the AAFP board of directors. In an early editorial, I shared my vision of optimal family practice.1 In that ideal health system, “Dr. Susan Sanchez” continuously...

LETTERS

Correction

GETTING PAID

CPT Coding Update for 2003

Kent J. Moore

Among the changes this year are codes for skin lesion excisions, musculoskeletal therapeutic injections, routine venipuncture and colposcopy.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

1995 or 1997 guidelines? | HIV counseling | Pure tone testing: 92551 or 92552? | Transfer with discharge and admission | Home visit codes for homebound patients | Using modifiers -GZ and -GY | Postpartum care | Ambulatory blood-pressure monitoring | Injection code 20550

MONITOR

MONITOR

Patients, physicians underestimate medical errors | Medicare payment cuts yet to be corrected | Primary care patient safety research under way | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | 255 ways to simplify Medicare | Could it be true? |...

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE

Open Access as an Alternative to Patient Combat

John Giannone

To improve patient care and service, simply turn off your deflector shields.

PRACTICE DIARY

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

Another panic attack | Horses vs. zebras III

COMPUTERS

10 Quick Tips for a More User-Friendly PDA

Anil Chandrashekhar

If you own a Palm OS personal digital assistant (PDA), but haven’t had time to learn more than the basics, this article is for you.

ASK FPM

ASK FPM

Jeffrey B. Miller, Kent J. Moore, Donald A. Balasa

Keeping old patient records | Cash-only practice | Referring to MAs as nurses

BALANCING ACT

Staying in the Loop at Work

Evelyn Fang

To improve your professional satisfaction, try investing in work relationships.



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All editors and editorial advisory board members in a position to control content for this activity, FPM journal, are required to disclose any relevant financial relationships. View disclosures.



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