2008 User Satisfaction With EHRs: Report of a Survey of 422 Family Physicians... A New Model of Charitable Care: The Robin Hood Practice... Practice Measurement: A New Approach for Demonstrating Your Work's Worth... Coming Changes in FPM... What Every Physician Should Know About the RUC... Doing What Has Always Worked... Transforming Your Practice: What Matters Most... Demystifying Computer Networks for Small Practices... Preventive Medicine: Giving Patients the Hard Sell... CPT 2008: A Glimpse of the Future of Family Medicine?... Does Primary Care Need Medicare?... 2007 Aiding the Wounded Among Us... Baumol's Disease... Optimizing Referrals & Consults With a Standardized Process... The Makings of a Good Meeting... Panel Size: Answers to Physicians' Frequently Asked Questions... Moving Beyond "Noncompliance"... Rebuilding Family Medicine From the Foundation Up... Coding Flu Shots: Immunize Against Lost Revenue... Recruiting and Retaining the Right Physicians... Are Your Patients Ready for Electronic Communication?... Virtual Office Visits: A Reachable and Reimbursable Innovation... Rewarding Failure... The Medical Home: An Idea Whose Time Has Come ... Again... Quick Ways to Maximize Your Office Space... 7 Strategies for Creating a More Efficient Practice... Ideal Medical Practice Model: Improving Efficiency, Quality and Relations... Practice a Half Century Ago and Now... Billing for Medicare Part D Vaccines... Are You Ready to Discuss Complementary and Alternative Medicine?... The Art of Apology: When and How to Seek Forgiveness... Improving Care With an Automated Patient History... A Report Card for 32 Payers: Not Making the Grade... Measuring for Medicare: The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative... How to Manage Difficult Patient Encounters... Huddles: Improve Office Efficiency in Mere Minutes... Breaking Even on 4 Visits Per Day... TransforMED Tries to Rebuild Family Medicine... Getting Beyond Blame in Your Practice... Family Medicine Meets the Blogosphere... How High-Low Agreements Work in a Malpractice Case... Efficient Office Design for a Successful Practice... Panel Size: How Many Patients Can One Doctor Manage?... How to Analyze Your E/M Coding Profile... Strategies for Developing a Knowledge-Driven Culture in Your Practice... Electronic Health Records: The 2007 FPM User-Satisfaction Survey... Vaccine Administration: Making the Process More Efficient in Your Practice... A Refresher on Coding Consultations... Is Moonlighting Right For You?... Helping Your Patients Avoid Counterfeit Medicines... EHRs Fix Everything - and Nine Other Myths... What's New in Medicare Preventive Benefits... Specialization in Family Medicine Education... Can Family Medicine Still Catalyze Social Change?... Simple Strategies to Avoid Medication Errors... How to Successfully Navigate Your EHR Implementation... Grade Your Payers: The Final Call for Survey Responses... 2006 Get Ready for the Revised CMS-1500 Claim Form... Grade Your Payers: The AAFP/FPM Survey... How to Improve the Quality of Waived Tests... Taming the Sample Closet... Sports Physicals: A Coding Conundrum... 'Paper Automation' of Your Progress Notes... Improving Communication With Older Patients... Providing Consistent Care With Standardized Admission Orders... A Toolbox of Resources to Simplify Your Practice... In Search of a Super Superbill... Collecting and Using Data in Practice... Pay for Performance and Family Medicine... How to Plan an Open House for Your Practice... Coding Practices: A Review... Finding the Perfect Job... Getting Off the Collections Treadmill... Precertification, Denials and Appeals: Reducing the Hassles... Improve Your ICD-9 Coding With Voice-Recognition Macros... New Drugs: How to Decide Which Ones to Prescribe... Retail Health Clinics Are Rolling Your Way... An Introduction to Personal Health Records... Bill for Services Performed by Nonphysician Practitioners... An Update on Tobacco Cessation Reimbursement... Delivering Planned Care... How Do You Cope With Bundled Claims... Can Your Patients Afford the Medications You Prescribe?... Same-Day E/M Services... Simple Patient Registry to Improve Your Chronic Disease Care... Outpatient vs. Inpatient Treatment of CAP... Practice Pearls... EHRs in the Exam Room: Tips on Patient-Centered Care... Creating a High-Performing Clinical Team... How Consumer-Driven Health Plans Will Affect Your Practice... Patient Balances: Getting to the Root of the Problem... A New Future With an Old Business Model... 2,500 Cash-Paying Patients and Growing... Cashing in on House Calls ... Physician Leadership: A New Model for a New Generation... Free Software for Your Practice... Characteristics of Successful Work Relationships... Group Visits for Chronic Illness Care... Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic... CPT 2006: Another Year, Another Round of Updates... Are You Ready for Medicare Part D?... 2005 1-800-Chronic Disease Management: Editorial... Choosing the Right Practice Entity... Take Your Personal Digital Assistant to the Next Level... Look Beyond Your Practice's Bottom Line... A Refresher on Medicare and Concurrent Care... Practice Pearls... Coding & Documentation... Reducing the Error Rate in Your Practice... A Must-Do List for the Departing Physician... Don't Get Burned Coding Common Skin Procedures... Coding & Documentation... Ten Hard Questions About the Future of the Specialty... Coding "Routine" Office Visits... ICD-9 Changes: It's Time to Tend to Your Superbill... Make Medical Notes Better and Faster With Macros... Prioritizing Your Incoming Messages... Coding and Documentation... What Makes a High-Earning Family Physician?... How to Manage a Pertussis Outbreak in Your Practice... Caring for Children: Re-examining the Family Physician's Role... Generating Patient Satisfaction and Compliance... Innovation in Practice... Are You Prepared to Defend Your Coding?... Helping Needy Patients Get Needed Medications... Expanding Your Practice Through Niche Services... Family Physicians for the Underserved... Is the New Model of Family Medicine Financially Viable?... The New Model of Family Medicine: What's In It for You... Improving Telephone Management in Your Practice... HIPAA Security Compliance... Office Efficiency Tools... Medical Assistants... Free Medical Applications for Your PDA... A Tool for Evaluating Patients With Knee Injury ... How to Cure A Bad Case of Fax-o-rrhea... How to Become A Defensive Filer... Coding and Documentation: Answers to Your Questions... The Value of A Coding Education... Balancing Act: Making the Most of Every Minute... Managing the Habitual No-Show Patient ... New Year, New Medicare Benefits ... How To Select an Electronic Health Record System... Electronic Health Records: A User-Satisfaction Survey... Preparing Your Office for a Medical Emergency ... Balancing Act: The Art of Coping With Change... A Sure Way To Improve Your Dictation... Getting Paid: CPT 2005: Another Case of Update Now or Pay Later... Working Together: Communities of Practice in Family Medicine... 2004 Coding and Documentation: Answers to Your Questions... Navigating the Medicare Web Site... What Motivates Staff?... Do You Have the Right Malpractice Insurance Policy?... Negotiating Your Semi-Retirement Package... Getting Paid: Understanding When to Use Modifier -25... Asthma Days: An Approach to Planned Asthma Care... Coding and Documentation: Answers to Your Questions... An Introduction to Tablet PCs... A Tool for Evaluating Patients With Cold Symptoms... ICD-9 Changes: Update Now or Pay Later... "Insuring" the Uninsured... Group Visits Hit the Road... Making Time to Listen... Big Ideas to Help Your Practice Thrive... Improving Patient Care... Coding and Documentation: Answers to Your Questions... Getting Paid: Billing for Work With Surgeons... Should You Charge Your Patients for "Free" Services?... Using Bilingual Staff Members as Interpreters... Balancing Act: Hippaposterous... Coding & Documentation: Answers to Your Questions ... Getting Paid: Are You Coding Accurately? ... Understanding When to Use 99211... Part-Time Practice: Making It Work... Patient-Physician Partnering to Improve Chronic Disease Care... Simplifying the Credentialing Process... A Simple Method for Evaluating the Clinical Literature... How To Make the Media Your Public Health Partner... Implementing Advanced Access in a Group Practice Network... Teaching Kindness... Patient Care: Using a Tracking Book for Unresolved Issues... Computers: Online Communication With Patients: Making It Work... Getting Paid: Why Every Practice Needs a Payment Policy... Making Sense of Preventive Coding... Communicating with Your Patients Online... Understanding Your Medical Bills... Coding for Depression Without Getting Depressed... Fighting for Hospital Privileges... The Cost of White Lies... The Stark Truth About the Stark Law: Part II... The Fine Art of Refusal... Making Evidence-Based Medicine Doable in Everyday Practice... Computers: A Primer on Wireless Networks... The Outcomes of Open-Access Scheduling... Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Clinical Intervention... Creating a Successful After-Hours Clinic... Five Strategies for a More Vital Practice... Getting Paid: CPT: What's in Store for 2004?... Three Steps to an Effective Practice Budget... 2003 When Patients Are in Mourning... How to Opt Out of Medicare... Family Medicine Takes Center Stage... How to Boost Your Bottom Line With An Office Procedure... The Truth About the Stark Law, Part I... Rediscovering the Joys of Family Practice... Leadership is a Learned Skill... Cost-Effectiveness Begins Between Your Ears... Two Tried-and-True Tools for E/M Documentation... How to Get All the 99214s You Deserve... Understanding When to Use the New Patient E/M Codes... Creating a Vital, Burnout-Proof Practice... Help With the HIPAA Transaction and Code Sets Standards... Spanning the Global Surgical Package... Coding and Documentation: Answers to Your Questions... Practical Evidence-Based Internet Resources... How to Make Your Meetings More Productive... The KISS Principle in FP: Keep It Simple and Systematic... Improving Patient Care: I Do House Calls!... Encounter Forms for Better Preventive Visits... Focusing on Today's Visit... Open-Source Software... Diagnostic Testing and Medicare... Demystifying Common Terms in Employment Agreements... 10 Ways Family Practices Lose Money... Answers... Implementing an EMR System... Evidence-Based Medicine Tools... E/M Codes and Guidelines Upate... Seven Ways to Help Your Hospital Stay in Business... The Anatomy of the Medicare Appeals Process... Evaluating Health Plans: Finding the Keepers... Making Paper Charts More Efficient... Making Family Practice Doable in Everyday Life... Maintaining a Medication List in the Chart... Defining 'Confined to the Home'... Sharing Maternity Care... Reasons Family Doctors Get Sued and How To Reduce Your Risk... Coding Hospital Admissions From Other Sites of Service... Organizing Your Desk... Ideas for Optimizing Your Nursing Staff... Develop Your Own Practice Intranet... CPT Coding Update for 2003... Implementing Change: From Ideas to Reality... Answers to Your Questions... Providing Charity Care: A Primer on Liability Risk... Open Access as an Alternative to Patient Combat... | 
