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How Health Care Reform Will Affect Family Physicians

BRANDI WHITE

The legislation isn't perfect, but it makes an important point – that primary care deserves more attention.

How to Be an Efficient and Effective Preceptor

Frances E. Biagioli, Kathryn G. Chappelle

It is possible to do the important work of precepting students and still get home in time for dinner.

Exam Documentation: Charting Within the Guidelines

KENT J. MOORE

Yes, it's complicated, but don't make it harder than it has to be.

The 12-Step Way to Reduce Practice Expenses: Part 2, Operational Efficiencies

Reed Tinsley

Even small cuts in your operational expenses can add up to big savings for your practice.

FROM THE EDITOR

Your Piece of the Deficit

Robert Edsall

How does it feel to benefit from federal red ink?

OPINION

Why the Medicare Fee Schedule and RVUs Matter to Employed Family Physicians

Kent J. Moore

When Medicare payments are cut, everybody loses, not just self-employed physicians.

LETTERS

Letters to health plans that send letters

Documenting the HPI

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Cindy Hughes

Pre-colonoscopy visit | Punch biopsy | Wound repair global periods | Cryotherapy for warts

PRACTICE PEARLS

PRACTICE PEARLS

William D. Soper, Dan Fitzsimmons, Hien Nguyen, Holly Baab, Gily Ionescu

Show “signs” of your patient commitment | Make use of a free, medical Spanish resource | Use analogies to increase compliance | Decorate your stirrup covers | “Treat every defect as a treasure” | Code diagnoses with a free, web-based look-up tool | Improve your patients'...

THE LAST WORD

How to Clean Up in Family Medicine

Bob Newbell

As costs increase, medical practices need to get creative.



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