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Issue Date: October 2003

Charges for ‘Nonbillable Care’ Raise Questions
This article discusses how some physicians are starting to bill patients for nonbillable care (services physicians must provide but cannot charge to an insurer). Such care includes phone calls to patients, completing certain forms, and sending medical records to other doctors.

Physicians Need More Time for Patient Care
This editorial discusses how, by using computer technology, physicians can spend less time doing administrative work and more time with patients.

EMR Adds Efficiency to Group Practice
This article discusses how a family practice is using computer technology to improve patient care, office efficiency, referrals, and billing systems.

Crisis Requires Asset Protection
This article discusses steps physicians and group practices can take to safeguard their assets from potential lawsuits, including malpractice claims.

Kaiser Shows How Computerized Systems Improve Efficiency, Cut Costs
This article discusses how Kaiser Permanente is implementing computer technology throughout its system to improve care, increase efficiency, and reduce costs.

Career Change May Open New Doors
This article discusses how physician consultants and advisers can help doctors who are considering whether to make a career change.

Pay-for-Performance Programs Spreading, Adding to Work Load
This article discusses how six health plans in California are implementing a financial incentive program as a way to encourage physicians to follow treatment guidelines, order tests for patients with certain conditions, chart patient satisfaction, and prescribe appropriate medications.

U.S. Should Distribute Preventive Care Materials
This editorial suggests that the U.S. Public Health Service distribute to physicians a list of the most common actue and chronic conditions as well as the most significant preventive care steps and quality indicators for those conditions, as a way to improve care quality.

Malpractice System Needs Work
This article discusses how the escalating costs of malpractice insurance is affecting physicians, patients, and the health care system overall. It also suggests steps to remedy what the author call a "malpractice crisis."

Study: More Patients Using the Web
This article discusses a recent report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project on recent trends in Internet use among patients and physicians. Among the report's findings is that about 80% of all adult Internet users (about 93 million Americans) searched the Web for health information last year.