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Are You Ready for Maintenance of Certification?

Brandi White

The new board recertification process has garnered mixed reviews from family physicians. Find out how it will impact you.

EDITOR'S PAGE

Maintenance of Certification

Robert L. Edsall

Controversial? Sure. Flawed? Arguably. Doomed? Probably not.

EDITORIAL

How Much Paperwork Is Too Much?

James H. Sanders, Jr.

When excessive paperwork threatens the quality of patient care, it’s time for physicians to put down their pens and take a stand.

LETTERS GETTING PAID

CPT 2005: Another Case of Update Now or Pay Later

Kent J. Moore

A new year brings new and revised codes for several of the services you provide.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

Prolonged services: the codes vs. the modifier | 99000 and in-office tests | Pap smear specimen | Splinter removal | Dexamethasone and Xylocaine injections | Casting and follow-up | Coding hyperbaric oxygen therapy

MONITOR

MONITOR

MedPAC drafts recommendations to improve Medicare payments | Physicians get little help with Medicare questions | Quality, safety revisited on anniversary of landmark IOM report

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE

A Sure Way to Improve Your Dictation

Robert J. Flaherty

The key is to dictate your notes before you leave the exam room.

ASK FPM

ASK FPM

Kent J. Moore, Charles O’Dell, Jeffrey Miller

Breaking up with Medicare | Protecting patients’ info over the phone | Coupons come with consequences

BALANCING ACT

The Art of Coping With Change

J. LeBron McBride

Whoever said that “nothing is constant except change” was right on target.



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