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Getting the Most From Your Phone System

Brian Torrey

Looking at your system through the eyes of a patient will help you understand what you need.

The Meeting You Won’t Want to Miss: Annual Strategic Planning

William D. Soper

Once a year, spend a day away from the office to invest in meaningful conversation about the direction of your practice.

14 Alternative Practice Styles

James M. Giovino

Perhaps the road less traveled is the right career path for you. Here are more than a dozen ideas to get you started.

The Family Practice Management Practice Self-Test

Robert L. Edsall, Leigh Ann Backer, Jennifer Bush, Brandi White, Olivia Maresh, Kel Anne Hocker, Marc L. Rivo

Here’s an easy way to gauge how well your practice is doing in everything from quality of care to quality of claims.

EDITOR’S PAGE

A New Shipment of Tools

Robert L. Edsall

As I said in a recent Editor’s Page, we really do live by the motto on the cover when we plan an issue of Family Practice Management: “Tools for Today’s Family Physician.” An article may be something you read and think about, but a tool is something you adopt and use. Many of...

EDITORIAL

Improving Your Practice Through the FPM Self-Test

Marc L. Rivo

As family physicians, we all share certain characteristics, such as a predisposition to focus on the whole person and an ability to handle the vast majority of our patients’ health needs and to help coordinate their care. Beyond those generalities, though, our practices may...

LETTERS

Not-so incidental expenses

Karl Sandberg

Commendable advice

Samuel N. Forjuoh

Kindness pays

Robert D. Gillette

Corrections

GETTING PAID

Waiving Co-payments and Deductibles for Indigent Patients

John O’Trompke

Here’s how to help your patients without violating fraud and abuse laws.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

Pneumococcal vaccinations and flu shots | Radiology consults | Day two of a three-day observation stay | Prolonged services or critical care maximums | “Significant, separately identifiable” E/M service

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE

Implementing Preventive Care Flow Sheets

Scott E. Moser, Tana L. Goering

Even the best preventive medicine tools won’t work until physicians are convinced they’re worth using.

PRACTICE DIARY

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

Getting squeezed | Teresa, FNP | Risk managers

ASK FPM

ASK FPM

Gail Levy, Charles O’Dell, Barry A. Gold

Setting up a practice | Closing time | Physician departure letter

BALANCING ACT

Living on Borrowed Time

Peter S. Moskowitz

This quick time-management exercise will show you exactly where you’re spending the 168 hours of your week.



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