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Getting Off the Collections Treadmill

Kristen Dillon

After repeatedly sending the same accounts to collection, this practice created a new policy to resolve the problem of patients who don't pay.

Don't be a Target for a Malpractice Suit

Edward G. Zurad

Protect yourself with these tips from a family physician who has successfully defended his care and that of other physicians.

FROM THE EDITOR

34 Pieces of Advice Worth Repeating

Robert Edsall

You know it's really good advice if you want to hear it again.

LETTERS

Reinventing the specialty

NEWS TRENDS

NEWS & TRENDS

CMS proposes edits of more than 10,000 CPT, HCPCS codes | Small but growing numbers of physicians drop health plans | Colonoscopy guideline could aid FPs seeking privileges | United tests program to pay patients' share of medical bills | Who has the best job in America? | ...

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Cindy Hughes

99211 for a blood pressure check | OB care before and after a C-section | Counseling when the patient is not present | Diagnosis codes for Medicare's initial exam

PRACTICE PEARLS

PRACTICE PEARLS

Identify patients who need a checkup | Remember to consider 99214 | Reconsider records requests | Create an electronic filing cabinet | Build staff morale

THE LAST WORD

Dressed to Ill

Bobby J. Newbell

If a shirt and tie are too formal and jeans and a T-shirt are too casual, what's a doctor to do?



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