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Breast Cancer
Practice Pointers: This piece of paper can boost your income
A well-designed, up-to-date, and error-free charge ticket improves Medicare compliance, coding, and, ultimately, collections.
Add services without big debt
Financing an X-ray machine or lab is easier than you think.
Thar's gold (maybe) in those ancillary services
Ambulatory surgery, physical therapy, mammography, bone densitometry, ultrasound, CT, MRI, and other sideline services can boost your bottom line. But ask yourself these hard-nosed questions before you get involved.
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Cardiovascular Disease
A $20,000 boost to your bottom line?
Medicare allows you to charge seniors for annual exams, and many can afford it. Can you afford to pass up this extra income?
Add services without big debt
Financing an X-ray machine or lab is easier than you think.
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Clinical Pharmacology
Buying a densitometer: FAQs answered
Best Practice Solution
2003 Writing Contest
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Cosmetic Surgery
Make your practice more profitable
Doctors are finding nontraditional ways to supplement stagnant practice earnings--selling everything from pregnancy calendars to advice on aging. Here&s what works.
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Diabetes
Adding a lab: Is it right for you?
It can improve patient satisfaction and boost your bottom line. Here's how to decide if one is best for you, whatever size your practice.
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Endocrinology & Diabetes
Adding a lab: Is it right for you?
It can improve patient satisfaction and boost your bottom line. Here's how to decide if one is best for you, whatever size your practice.
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Family Medicine
Adding Ancillaries: Bone density testing
This is the 11th in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep your practice busy in a competitive market.
Buying a densitometer: FAQs answered
Best Practice Solution
2003 Writing Contest
A $20,000 boost to your bottom line?
Medicare allows you to charge seniors for annual exams, and many can afford it. Can you afford to pass up this extra income?
Adding a lab: Is it right for you?
It can improve patient satisfaction and boost your bottom line. Here's how to decide if one is best for you, whatever size your practice.
Add services without big debt
Financing an X-ray machine or lab is easier than you think.
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Gastroenterology
A $20,000 boost to your bottom line?
Medicare allows you to charge seniors for annual exams, and many can afford it. Can you afford to pass up this extra income?
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Geriatrics
Adding Ancillaries: Bone density testing
This is the 11th in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep your practice busy in a competitive market.
Practice Pointers: This piece of paper can boost your income
A well-designed, up-to-date, and error-free charge ticket improves Medicare compliance, coding, and, ultimately, collections.
Buying a densitometer: FAQs answered
Best Practice Solution
2003 Writing Contest
A $20,000 boost to your bottom line?
Medicare allows you to charge seniors for annual exams, and many can afford it. Can you afford to pass up this extra income?
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Gynecologic Oncology
Add services without big debt
Financing an X-ray machine or lab is easier than you think.
Thar's gold (maybe) in those ancillary services
Ambulatory surgery, physical therapy, mammography, bone densitometry, ultrasound, CT, MRI, and other sideline services can boost your bottom line. But ask yourself these hard-nosed questions before you get involved.
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Hyperlipidemia
A $20,000 boost to your bottom line?
Medicare allows you to charge seniors for annual exams, and many can afford it. Can you afford to pass up this extra income?
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Infectious Disease
A Physician's Guide to CLIA rules
Here's what you need to know to keep your office lab functioning smoothly
Adding a lab: Is it right for you?
It can improve patient satisfaction and boost your bottom line. Here's how to decide if one is best for you, whatever size your practice.
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
A $20,000 boost to your bottom line?
Medicare allows you to charge seniors for annual exams, and many can afford it. Can you afford to pass up this extra income?
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Internal Medicine
Practice Pointers: This piece of paper can boost your income
A well-designed, up-to-date, and error-free charge ticket improves Medicare compliance, coding, and, ultimately, collections.
A $20,000 boost to your bottom line?
Medicare allows you to charge seniors for annual exams, and many can afford it. Can you afford to pass up this extra income?
Adding a lab: Is it right for you?
It can improve patient satisfaction and boost your bottom line. Here's how to decide if one is best for you, whatever size your practice.
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Managed Care & Medicare Part D
It pays to make friends with payers
Health-plan employees are people, too. That's good to keep in mind during the next call about a denial.
It pays to make friends with payers
Health-plan employees are people, too. That's good to keep in mind during the next call about a denial.
A Physician's Guide to CLIA rules
Here's what you need to know to keep your office lab functioning smoothly
Practice Pointers: This piece of paper can boost your income
A well-designed, up-to-date, and error-free charge ticket improves Medicare compliance, coding, and, ultimately, collections.
A $20,000 boost to your bottom line?
Medicare allows you to charge seniors for annual exams, and many can afford it. Can you afford to pass up this extra income?
Don't sign that contract! (Yet)
A veteran negotiator tells how to avoid the pitfalls in health plan contracts and win the best deal for your practice.
Adding a lab: Is it right for you?
It can improve patient satisfaction and boost your bottom line. Here's how to decide if one is best for you, whatever size your practice.
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Medical Economics
Stop losing money! Code better
If you want to get paid for the care you provide, you can't afford to ignore these coding tips.
Adding Ancillaries: Bone density testing
This is the 11th in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep your practice busy in a competitive market.
It pays to make friends with payers
Health-plan employees are people, too. That's good to keep in mind during the next call about a denial.
It pays to make friends with payers
Health-plan employees are people, too. That's good to keep in mind during the next call about a denial.
Practice Pointers: This piece of paper can boost your income
A well-designed, up-to-date, and error-free charge ticket improves Medicare compliance, coding, and, ultimately, collections.
Buying a densitometer: FAQs answered
Best Practice Solution
2003 Writing Contest
S corp, C corp, LLC, LLP—which is best?
Whether you're setting up a new practice or re-evaluating an existing one, here's help in sorting through your options.
A $20,000 boost to your bottom line?
Medicare allows you to charge seniors for annual exams, and many can afford it. Can you afford to pass up this extra income?
How to close a practice
Whether you're turning your practice over to a colleague, selling it, or simply walking away, take the time to do it right.
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Medicare Part D
Practice Pointers: This piece of paper can boost your income
A well-designed, up-to-date, and error-free charge ticket improves Medicare compliance, coding, and, ultimately, collections.
A $20,000 boost to your bottom line?
Medicare allows you to charge seniors for annual exams, and many can afford it. Can you afford to pass up this extra income?
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Most e-mailed 2006 articles
Stop losing money! Code better
If you want to get paid for the care you provide, you can't afford to ignore these coding tips.
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Most viewed 2006 articles
Stop losing money! Code better
If you want to get paid for the care you provide, you can't afford to ignore these coding tips.
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Nursing
Practice Pointers: This piece of paper can boost your income
A well-designed, up-to-date, and error-free charge ticket improves Medicare compliance, coding, and, ultimately, collections.
Hot Chocolate, Pocket PC, or pen tablet? Hard facts about hardware
Before the techie jargon makes you crazy, think about what you want to do with a mobile computer. That will tell you which kind makes sense for you.
Are you collecting illegal dollars for "incident to" services?
Many doctors consistently break Medicare's mushy rules about billing for NPs and PAs, risking harsh penalties.
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Obstetrics/Gynecology & Women's Health
Adding Ancillaries: Bone density testing
This is the 11th in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep your practice busy in a competitive market.
Practice Pointers: This piece of paper can boost your income
A well-designed, up-to-date, and error-free charge ticket improves Medicare compliance, coding, and, ultimately, collections.
Buying a densitometer: FAQs answered
Best Practice Solution
2003 Writing Contest
Add services without big debt
Financing an X-ray machine or lab is easier than you think.
Make your practice more profitable
Doctors are finding nontraditional ways to supplement stagnant practice earnings--selling everything from pregnancy calendars to advice on aging. Here&s what works.
Thar's gold (maybe) in those ancillary services
Ambulatory surgery, physical therapy, mammography, bone densitometry, ultrasound, CT, MRI, and other sideline services can boost your bottom line. But ask yourself these hard-nosed questions before you get involved.
 MORE ARTICLES

Oncology
Practice Pointers: This piece of paper can boost your income
A well-designed, up-to-date, and error-free charge ticket improves Medicare compliance, coding, and, ultimately, collections.
Add services without big debt
Financing an X-ray machine or lab is easier than you think.
Thar's gold (maybe) in those ancillary services
Ambulatory surgery, physical therapy, mammography, bone densitometry, ultrasound, CT, MRI, and other sideline services can boost your bottom line. But ask yourself these hard-nosed questions before you get involved.
 MORE ARTICLES

Orthopedics
Adding Ancillaries: Bone density testing
This is the 11th in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep your practice busy in a competitive market.
Buying a densitometer: FAQs answered
Best Practice Solution
2003 Writing Contest
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Osteoporosis
Adding Ancillaries: Bone density testing
This is the 11th in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep your practice busy in a competitive market.
Buying a densitometer: FAQs answered
Best Practice Solution
2003 Writing Contest
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Pathology
A Physician's Guide to CLIA rules
Here's what you need to know to keep your office lab functioning smoothly
Practice Pointers: This piece of paper can boost your income
A well-designed, up-to-date, and error-free charge ticket improves Medicare compliance, coding, and, ultimately, collections.
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Patient Relations
When a patient refuses help

This man doomed himself, and the author wonders if he could have prevented it.

Honorable Mention 2006 Doctors' Writing Contest

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Pediatrics
Add services without big debt
Financing an X-ray machine or lab is easier than you think.
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Pharmacy
Clip and Copy: Streamlining Rx renewal requests
Set up a dedicated phone line for pharmacies, then send them this letter. It will save you time and hassles.
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Practice Management
Clip and Copy: How to ask for copays
Use scripts to help staffers collect these charges at the time of service.
Clip and Copy: How to ask for copays
Use scripts to help staffers collect these charges at the time of service.
Clip and Copy—PAs and NPs: Evaluating performance
Use this form to indicate what you expect of the midlevel providers in your practice--and whether they're meeting those expectations.
Clip and Copy: Assessing doctors' job satisfaction
Use this tool to help determine whether your practice is meeting associates' needs.
Coding Cues
Chronic conditions
Stop losing money! Code better
If you want to get paid for the care you provide, you can't afford to ignore these coding tips.
Adding Ancillaries: Bone density testing
This is the 11th in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep your practice busy in a competitive market.
It pays to make friends with payers
Health-plan employees are people, too. That's good to keep in mind during the next call about a denial.
It pays to make friends with payers
Health-plan employees are people, too. That's good to keep in mind during the next call about a denial.
 MORE ARTICLES

Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Add services without big debt
Financing an X-ray machine or lab is easier than you think.
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Radiology
Adding Ancillaries: Bone density testing
This is the 11th in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep your practice busy in a competitive market.
Practice Pointers: This piece of paper can boost your income
A well-designed, up-to-date, and error-free charge ticket improves Medicare compliance, coding, and, ultimately, collections.
Add services without big debt
Financing an X-ray machine or lab is easier than you think.
Make your practice more profitable
Doctors are finding nontraditional ways to supplement stagnant practice earnings--selling everything from pregnancy calendars to advice on aging. Here&s what works.
Thar's gold (maybe) in those ancillary services
Ambulatory surgery, physical therapy, mammography, bone densitometry, ultrasound, CT, MRI, and other sideline services can boost your bottom line. But ask yourself these hard-nosed questions before you get involved.
 MORE ARTICLES

Residents & Med Students
Stop losing money! Code better
If you want to get paid for the care you provide, you can't afford to ignore these coding tips.
Adding Ancillaries: Bone density testing
This is the 11th in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep your practice busy in a competitive market.
Practice Pointers: This piece of paper can boost your income
A well-designed, up-to-date, and error-free charge ticket improves Medicare compliance, coding, and, ultimately, collections.
Buying a densitometer: FAQs answered
Best Practice Solution
2003 Writing Contest
A $20,000 boost to your bottom line?
Medicare allows you to charge seniors for annual exams, and many can afford it. Can you afford to pass up this extra income?
Add services without big debt
Financing an X-ray machine or lab is easier than you think.
 MORE ARTICLES

Surgery
Clip and Copy: Assessing doctors' job satisfaction
Use this tool to help determine whether your practice is meeting associates' needs.
Adding Ancillaries: Bone density testing
This is the 11th in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep your practice busy in a competitive market.
A $20,000 boost to your bottom line?
Medicare allows you to charge seniors for annual exams, and many can afford it. Can you afford to pass up this extra income?
Add services without big debt
Financing an X-ray machine or lab is easier than you think.
Hot Chocolate, Pocket PC, or pen tablet? Hard facts about hardware
Before the techie jargon makes you crazy, think about what you want to do with a mobile computer. That will tell you which kind makes sense for you.
Thar's gold (maybe) in those ancillary services
Ambulatory surgery, physical therapy, mammography, bone densitometry, ultrasound, CT, MRI, and other sideline services can boost your bottom line. But ask yourself these hard-nosed questions before you get involved.
 MORE ARTICLES

Urgent Care Medicine
Adding Ancillaries: Bone density testing
This is the 11th in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep your practice busy in a competitive market.
Buying a densitometer: FAQs answered
Best Practice Solution
2003 Writing Contest
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