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Time Is of the Essence: Coding on the Basis of Time for Physician Services

Aris Sophocles

Sometimes, coding is almost as simple as looking at the clock.

Demystifying Common Terms in Employment Agreements

Michael R. Burke

A few key provisions can explain a lot about your contract.

Questions You Should Ask When Hiring

Peter Cardinal

Choosing the best candidate for your staff depends a lot on selecting the right interview questions.

10 Ways Family Practices Lose Money

Keith Borglum

Learn how to plug the leaks that deplete your practice’s income.

EDITOR’S PAGE

Trouble at the Money/Medicine Interface

Robert L. Edsall

If you had any doubt that you practice in an absurdly complicated health care system, the article in this issue by Alice G. Gosfield, JD, would set you straight (see page 14). In a few pages of prose that’s as lucid as the subject allows, Gosfield summarizes the laws and...

LETTERS

Stumbling blocks to open access

A nice touch

Richard E. Hunton

Clarification

Advantages of shared care

Debbie Heck

Corrections

GETTING PAID

Diagnostic Testing and Medicare: How to Get Paid Without Getting in Trouble

Alice G. Gosfield

Learn the rules, and you’ll get the reimbursement you’re entitled to.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

Coding multiple new problems | Swing-bed status

MONITOR

MONITOR

Health professionals’ education system needs “overhaul,” says IOM | New program pays docs for quality | Primary care to lead change of Americans’ unhealthy behaviors | HIPAA gets a rough start | Error rates higher in U.S. | Saving more with EMRs | Average hospital stays | The...

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE

Focusing on Today’s Visit

James W. Redka

This simple checklist can make your job easier by helping patients clarify what they want out of today’s visit.

PRACTICE DIARY

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

A complicated case | Horses vs. zebras IV | Old myths die hard

COMPUTERS

Open-Source Software: Just What the Doctor Ordered?

Jennifer Bush

Open-source software may be the key to an electronic health record system that even the smallest practice can afford.

ASK FPM

ASK FPM

Tom McGuinness, Todd A. Rodriguez, Keith Borglum

Offering health benefits | Governance rights | Employment agreements

BALANCING ACT

A Funny Thing Happened Today at the Office

Melanie Boock

Laughter is the best medicine. And medicine often makes for the best laughter.



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