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Going Solo: Making the Leap

Gordon Moore

Why one family physician left the security of salaried practice to pursue ideal patient care completely on his own.

Improving Anticoagulation Management at the Point of Care

Anne E. Caffee, Peter G. Teichman

Stop treating lab results. These easy-to-use devices return the focus of warfarin therapy to treating the patient.

Test Your Coding Skills

Olivia K. Maresh

Go head to head with our review panel in coding six troublesome progress notes.

EDITOR’S PAGE

Getting Paid: Wrestling With the System

Robert L. Edsall

Don’t you just hate coding? I have to think you do – especially coding for evaluation and management (E/M) services. After all, articles on E/M coding are among the most popular FPM publishes.

LETTERS

Majority of visits equal 99214

Philip S. Whitecar

HIPAA and mental health notes

Praise for help with 99214s

B. Crownover

GETTING PAID

Seven Tips to Improve Your ICD-9 Coding for Diagnostic Tests

Kent J. Moore

You can prevent costly claims denials by following these guidelines.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

Critical care on the day of admission | Allergy history | Developmental testing

MONITOR

MONITOR

Six health plans to begin paying for quality | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Compliance date extended for HIPAA transactions rules | It’s official | Health insurance costs rise | The price of noncompliance | Complaints wanted | Free publicity online | Ignoring the...

INFORMATION FROM YOUR FAMILY DOCTOR

Prescriptions: Why They’re So Complicated

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IMPROVING PATIENT CARE

Results From the FPM Practice Self-Test

Brandi White

Family physicians rate how they are doing and what they think it takes to succeed.

PRACTICE DIARY

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

Horses vs. zebras II | Moving on | Excuses

ASK FPM

ASK FPM

Matt Lewis, Mark Smith, Kent J. Moore

Creating a practice Web site | Unwilling support staff | Teaching-physician rules & physicals

SALARIED FP

It’s Not Too Early to Prepare for Semi-Retirement

Vasilios J. Kalogredis

Adding a semi-retirement clause to your current contract will free you to broaden your horizons later.

BALANCING ACT

Precepting: Help Yourself While Helping Students

Jeff Suzewits

Has your enthusiasm for medicine begun to wane? Precepting may help improve your perspective.



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