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Where to Look for Good Clinical Policies

Thomas T. Gilbert, Julie Scott Taylor

Doctors increasingly need to know how to find, evaluate and implement clinical policies. Our primer begins with this first of two articles.

Ground Rules for Dealing With Health Care Plans

Brandi White

A new AAFP document maps out the high ground for family physicians' relationships with managed care organizations.

More Take-Home Messages From the AAFP Assembly

John Spicer, Brandi White

From coding to capitation to computerized records, the Managed Care and Practice Enhancement Forum had a lot to teach.

A Physician's Guide to Locum Tenens

William T. Cushing

If you've ever been curious about this unique practice option, here's how one family physician made it work.

EDITOR'S PAGE

Bringing You Knowledge in Small Bites

Robert L. Edsall

First, in case you missed the January issue, which introduced our new design, some reassurance: Yes, this is still Family Practice Management. The cover has changed, we've changed the look of our pages, we've increased the number and variety of articles, and we've added some...

LETTERS

Turf battles for the insecure

Harriet L. Hellman

Priced out of a job

Jon F. Bode

GETTING PAID

Implementing a Policy for Same-Day Payments

Jean Kouris

The sooner you collect a payment for your services, the greater its value to your practice.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CPT Changes for 1999

Kent J. Moore

Look especially closely at code changes for radiology, lab and pathology, and immunization services.

Coding and Documentation

Kent J. Moore, John Spicer

Differentiating between new patients ... | ... and established patients | Coding repeat procedures | Codes for motor vehicle accidents | Discharging hospitalized patients | When preventive visits get complicated

MONITOR

Monitor

Medicare spending slows; leaders call for more | Site offers one-stop shopping for clinical policies | How much are you paying your management staff? | Doctors fleeing HMOs? | HMOs sued over compensation methods | Studies find increasing numbers of uninsured | Quote. End...

PRACTICE DIARY

Practice Diary

Sanford J. Brown

Embracing technology | Customer service | Small victories | Penny wise, pound foolish | Getting along with insurers

ASK FPM

Ask FPM

Katherine H. Autieri, Keith Rayburn, Kent J. Moore

Legal risks of giving a reference | Teaming up physicians and midlevel providers | Medicare HMOs and “teaching physician” rules

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE

Time Savers

Use these tips to boost your efficiency in the office.

COMPUTERS

Our Featured Web Site: Medical World Search

David C. Kibbe

For searches of the clinical and allied health literature, nothing beats MEDLINE online (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases_medline.html). But for searches of the World Wide Web at large for information related to medicine and health care, I recommend Medical World...

BALANCING ACT

Conflict 101

Lyndia Flanagan

While you can't eliminate conflict altogether, you can improve your reaction to it.



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All editors and editorial advisory board members in a position to control content for this activity, FPM journal, are required to disclose any relevant financial relationships. View disclosures.



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