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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 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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