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Issue Date: April 2004

Prevent Practice Revenue From Vanishing Into Your Paperwork
This article discusses some overlooked, but simple steps physicians can take to improve their coding, billing, and compliance procedures.

The Ethical Imperative
This editorial discusses the difficulty physicians face in trying to keep up with the business aspects of their practice, especially compliance requirements, as well as clinical advances.

OIG’s Work Plan Provides a Draft for Your Compliance Program
This article discusses the Office of the Inspector General's 2004 workplan and the areas that is will be scrutinizing, including use of modifier -25, claims from ambulatory surgical centers, medical necessity of nerve conduction studies, and E&M services.

Schedule Periodic Examinations for Your Office Superbill
This article discusses the importance of adding new diagnostic codes to and deleting obsolete diagnostic codes from a practice's billing system.

Evidence Fosters Guideline Update
This article discusses the 2003 Guideline Update for the Clinical Application of Echocardiography, including when it is and is not appropriate to use the technique.

Studies Show EMRs Have Promise
This editorial discusses how electronic medical records, although a costly investment, can provide the potential for significant savings, increased revenue, improved quality, and better patient care.

Pursuing Perfection to Transform Care
This article discusses how HealthPartners, a family of nonprofit, consumer governed health care organizations, is using the $1.9 million grant it received from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to transform the care process.

Act May Help Rural Doctors Succeed
This article discusses how the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act may spur an increase in health savings accounts. It also discusses the current role of primary care, which some experts say needs to be given more relevance in the health care system in order to improve quality of care.

Will New Rules Improve the System?
This article discusses the potential impact health care savings accounts could have on the health care system, as well as arguments for and against the widespread use of such accounts.

Strategies Needed to Retain Physicians
This article discusses how Internet-based application service providers can help practices and hospitals retain physicians. It argues that by improving their data capabilities, practices and hospitals can help physicians practice more efficiently, thereby improving their satisfaction with medicine, their income, and their quality of life.