Encounter Forms for Better Preventive Visits

Peter A. Cardinal

These two tools can help improve your care and documentation.

Practical Evidence-Based Internet Resources

Brian S. Alper

If you’ve got a clinical question and want an immediate answer based on the most current and valid information available, check out these Web sites.

How to Make Your Meetings More Productive

Roger Shenkel

By gathering the right people, using your time wisely and focusing on action, you’ll conduct meetings everyone will want to attend.

The KISS Principle in Family Practice: Keep It Simple and Systematic

Leif I. Solberg

A clear, deliberate, consistent approach will beat the alternative every time.

Systematizing Your Practice

Robert L. Edsall

I am particularly pleased to be able to offer you this issue’s cover story by Leif I. Solberg, MD, both because it carries a message that is vital to family physicians today and because it articulates clearly a major theme of Family Practice Management – that systematic...

E/M coding: Everything old is new again

Keeping hospitals afloat

Physicians must take charge

Simplifying with stamps

Reducing risk with consultations

Best Practices in Claims Processing

Leigh Ann Backer

These strategies will help you minimize claims delays and denials and revive your practice’s revenues.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Kent J. Moore

Observation status and consultations | Coding the treatment of depression | Medicare certification and recertification | Venipuncture | Reimbursement for a surgical tray | CPT code for semen analysis | Paperwork codes | Counseling codes | Urine sample & 99211

MONITOR

Physicians lobby to stop more Medicare payment cuts | Clinical support staff salaries | Solutions proposed to ease malpractice insurance crisis | PRACTICE PEARLS from here and there | Thirty ways to be safe | What would you do with $142? | Health care on the Net | Would you...

I Do House Calls!

Samantha Pozner

Home visits aren’t just a thing of the past. They can benefit patients and doctors, even today.

PRACTICE DIARY

Sanford J. Brown

Is the customer always right? | Unprofessional conduct

ASK FPM

Todd Rodriguez, Jeffrey B. Sansweet, Keith Borglum

Vacation coverage | Disability insurance | Discouraging no-shows

Eight Principles for Stronger Relationships

J. LeBron McBride

Married to your work? Try working on your marriage.