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Seven Ways to Help Your Hospital Stay in Business

Kathryn Stewart

Your inpatient care decisions could make or break your local hospital.

Caring for Frequent-Visit Patients

Robert D. Gillette

Patients who keep coming back often require physicians to walk the line between diagnosis and judgment.

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Perverse Incentives, Perverted System

Robert L. Edsall

In the old days of managed care, say 10 years ago, we heard a lot about aligning incentives. Incentive alignment was, for some, the holy grail. In essence, the idea was to pay physicians and hospitals and other providers in such a way that they all did the best financially...

LETTERS GETTING PAID

An Update on the E/M Codes and Documentation Guidelines

Kent J. Moore

There’s a movement afoot to radically alter the way you choose the level of service of E/M codes.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

Documenting observation and admission | Defining an E/M service | NDC numbers on claims | Pharmacologic management | Mini Mental Status Exam

MONITOR

MONITOR

Supreme Court affirms “any willing provider” law | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Family practice match numbers continue to decline | Doctors, hospitals try new response to medical errors | Help with HIPAA | Managing long waits |...

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE

Group Visits 101

Suzanne Houck, Charles Kilo, John C. Scott

Group visits can improve patient care and relieve you from the treadmill of office practice. Here’s how to get started.

PRACTICE DIARY

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

Office manager for a day | Life insurance | A friend in need II

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ASK FPM

John Giannone, Kent J. Moore, Alice Gosfield, Thomas J. Weida

Transition to open access | Medicare Secondary Payer forms | Billing for temporary physicians | Documentation forms for preventive exams

BALANCING ACT

Forget About Time Management

Pamela J. Vaccaro

Focusing your attention is the key to getting more done.



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