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FEATURES

Should You Treat Yourself, Family or Friends?

Robyn Latessa, Lisa Ray

It boils down to a personal decision in most situations.

What You Need to Know About the Medicare Prescription Drug Act

Jennifer Brinckerhoff, Eric A. Coleman

Congress passed the legislation. Now physicians must learn the details.

Answers to Your Questions About Same-Day Scheduling

Mark Murray

The concept’s founder explains how to do “today’s work today” and improve patient access to your practice.

EDITOR’S PAGE

Open Access: Nothing This Good Can Be Easy

Robert L. Edsall

Practice is too complicated for improvements to be simple.

EDITORIAL

Establishing Rules of the Road for Pharmaceutical Representatives

Jason Evans

Being up-front can help prevent back-door tactics.

LETTERS

MOC triggers resignation

Stephen Welk

MOC implementation unfair

Glenn Mizarch

Grace period could make MOC less time-demanding

Karen Suttle

Days too short for MOC

Paul Houston

Enough is enough

Luis Garcia-Rivera

Asthma Days worth further chronicling

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GETTING PAID

The Value of a Coding Education

John Rowe, Blake Fagan, David Mouw, Dottie King, Kelly Christianson

This practice sent an employee to coding school and saw dramatic revenue gains.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

Coding forms completion | An office visit with multiple procedures | Venipuncture on a Medicare patient | Coding a pre-operative, consultative exam | Trigger-point injections | Interpreting diagnostic tests | Critical-care transport | “Reviewing” vs. “interpreting” an X-ray

MONITOR

MONITOR

Physicians’ quality report cards to go public | Medicare pay-for-performance demo under way | Health care professionals unlikely to address colleagues’ errors | Physicians sue health plan over fee reduction

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE

A Tool for Evaluating Patients With Knee Injury

Mark H. Ebell

The most widely used tests may not be the most effective.

PRACTICE DIARY

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

Vitamin V | A transcription error

ASK FPM

ASK FPM

Daniel M. Bernick, Julie Henry, David R. Dearden

Semi-retirement within a productivity-based group | Salary comparison resources | Appointment of counsel

COMPUTERS

How to Cure a Bad Case of Fax-o-rrhea

Tripp Bradd

Feeling overwhelmed by faxes? Try this doctor’s fix: a mix of technology and diplomacy.

BALANCING ACT

How to Become a Defensive Filer

Anna K. Cox-Havron

Saving information you don’t need could be costing you more than you think.



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