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Electronic Health Records: The 2007 FPM User-Satisfaction Survey

Kenneth G. Adler, Robert L. Edsall

If you already use an electronic health record system, here's your chance to help your colleagues who haven't yet made the leap.

Strategies for Developing a Knowledge-Driven Culture in Your Practice

A. John Orzano, Alfred F. Tallia, Claire R. McInerney, Reuben R. McDaniel, Jr., Benjamin F. Crabtree

Your practice's success may depend on getting those who work for you to share what they know. Here's how to do it.

How to Analyze Your E/M Coding Profile

Betsy Nicoletti

Your peers have been coding more 99214s. Is it time to review your coding habits?

Panel Size: How Many Patients Can One Doctor Manage?

Mark Murray, Mike Davies, Barbara Boushon

There are limits to the number of patients you can effectively care for. Here's how to determine that number, improve patient access and better manage your workload.

FROM THE EDITOR

The Right Number: Optimizing Panel Size

Edsall Robert

How many patients should you have, and how many do you have? Two simple questions, right?

OPINION

Are Your Payers' Fee Schedules Fair?

Thomas A. Felger

If they use multiple conversion factors when determining what they'll pay, you may be at an even greater disadvantage than you realized.

LETTERS

EHRs don't fix everything

Bobby J. Newbell

Welcome to Medicare visit and AAA screening

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NEWS TRENDS

NEWS & TRENDS

2007 Match results: Family medicine stays flat | New CMS-1500 claim form delayed by formatting error | Conn. bill seeks to limit claim denials | So many topics, so little time during office visits

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Cindy Hughes

Anticoagulation management | New patients for a new physician? | Billing for wet mounts and KOH preps | Using documentation from MAs

PRACTICE PEARLS

PRACTICE PEARLS

James Bare

Be ready to accommodate caregivers | Ask patients for feedback | Providing services as a professional courtesy

THE LAST WORD

Health Care's Giant Hairball

Jack Valancy

When faced with organizational bureaucracy, physicians can either give in, get out or learn how to orbit.



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