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Closing the Physician-Staff Divide: A Step Toward Creating the Medical Home

Benjamin F. Crabtree, Reuben R. McDaniel, Paul A. Nutting, Holly J. Lanham, J. Anna Looney, William L. Miller

If your staff's job is to keep patients moving through the system and yours is to take care of the patients they supply, your practice is flawed.

Stark III: Refinement Not Revolution (Part 2)

ALICE G. GOSFIELD

The regulations include good news for physicians who work with hospitals.

How to Protect Your Data When You're on the Web

Adarsh K. Gupta

Every time you access the Internet, a world of criminals is trying to steal personal information – yours and your patients'. Here's how to stop them.

FROM THE EDITOR

A Quick Tour of the Changes in FPM

Robert Edsall, Editor-in-Chief

Board here. The tour bus is about to depart.

OPINION

Why Teamwork Will Make or Break Your Practice

Bruce Bagley

Without it, practice transformation and optimal outcomes will be difficult to achieve

LETTERS

Evaluating the RUC

James Wedell

NEWS TRENDS

NEWS & TRENDS

2008 Match Results: Family medicine shows slight improvement | Communities needed for EHR demonstration project | Majority of FPs wouldn't do it again despite strong job market

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Cindy Hughes

Tobacco cessation codes | Specimen transfer to lab | Home health services | Diagnosis code for prothrombin time testing | Hospital discharge when the patient dies | Hepatitis test | Nebulizer supplies

PRACTICE PEARLS

PRACTICE PEARLS

Andy Pasternak, Jesse Bracamonte, Hien Nguyen, Sweety Jain, Alice G. Gosfield

Monitor records transfers | Use analogies to increase patient compliance | Have a garage sale | Focus on special needs | Tracking follow-up care

THE LAST WORD


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