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ICD-9 Changes: The New Codes Are Here

Cindy Hughes

You should start using the updated diagnosis codes Oct. 1.

In Search of a Super Superbill

Leigh Ann Backer

This superbill incorporates the best characteristics of superbills submitted by FPM readers.

Providing Consistent Care With Standardized Admission Orders

Robert M. Wiprud

Incorporating these orders into your hospital admission routine will ensure that patients receive comprehensive, appropriate care every time.

A Toolbox of Resources to Simplify Your Practice

FPM’s online toolbox equips you with more than 150 practice management tools.

The FPM Encounter Forms Collection: ‘Paper Automation’ of Your Progress Notes

Robert L. Edsall

Our forms can make documentation faster, easier and more accurate while providing decision support and coding help. What more do you want for nothing?

Improving Communication With Older Patients: Tips From the Literature

Thomas E. Robinson, II, George L. White, Jr, John C. Houchins

Poor communication with this vulnerable and growing population can undermine your efforts to provide good patient care.

FROM THE EDITOR

A Whole Issue of Doctor Tools

Robert Edsall

Your practice toolkit isn’t complete without these.

LETTERS

Affordable medications in India

Sunil Abraham

Creating a registry for patients with chronic disease

Scott Lee

Precertification, denials and appeals

Craig M. Wax

Which drugs to prescribe

Correction

NEWS TRENDS

NEWS & TRENDS

Connecticut physicians plan to open retail health clinics | Medicare changes enrollment process for physicians | FP recruitment sees an upswing | Certification, safe harbors announced for EHRs | Aetna goes public with physicians' payment rates | IOM report addresses...

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Cindy Hughes

Pre- and post-op consultations | Multiple allergy shots | OB care after hours | Typhoid immunizations | Care plan oversight and nursing facilities | Exam documentation for 99214 | Documenting review of systems | Billing for Pap smear collections | STD screening

PRACTICE PEARLS

PRACTICE PEARLS

Linwood Watson, David Lubin, Jennifer Donohue, Julian T. Hsu, Alice G. Gosfield, Wendy Dicranian, Nancy Griffith, Nate Hitzeman

Explain the benefits of pneumonia immunization | Coordinate refills and appointments | Hold a staff appreciation lunch | Use your PDA as a reminder tool | HIPAA and filling out forms in the waiting room | Write it where you’ll need it | Let your patients do their jobs | Keep...

THE LAST WORD

Why I Never Had an Atari Video Game System

Mitchell L. Cohen

Technology won’t solve all our problems, and it may even cause a few.



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