    The year I chucked conventional medicine.

Hiringand     keepinggood clerical staff.

     Practice Pointers: How to find and keep top-notch clinical staff.

     Practice Pointers: How to find a billing boss who fits the bill.

     Practice Pointers: Is your practice staffed correctly?

     Practice Pointers: When it's time to give an employee the boot.

     Practice Pointers: Don't let lunch money bandits steal you blind.

     Practice Pointers: Get your office software out of first gear.

    Practice Pointers: Turn a problem employee into a pearl.

     Coding Consult: E&MOut with the new, in with the old.

     Coding Consult: Fraud busters have their eye on you (still).

     Practice Pointers: Increase collectionswatch those EOBs!

     Practice Pointers: Don't let dollars walk out the door.

     Coding Consult: Answers to your questions about . . .

    Why I had to pay my patients' lab bills.

     Keep your car from eating your cash.

     Car options: Must-haves and forget-its.

     How to talk an elderly patient off the road.

   Terrorism: Guarding against biological agents.

     Coding Consult: Low-level codes can bring in high revenue.

     Coding Consult: Answers to your questions about. . .using the right after-hours     code; coding an anxious patient's blood test.

     Coding Consult: How to code minor derm procedures.

     Coding Consult: Answers to your questions about. . . coding a get-acquainted     visit; billing for an office visit and a hospital admission; coding for fracture     care

     Coding Consult: Make sure you're paid for counseling.

     Coding Consult: Answers to your questions about. . .charging for time spent     on paperwork; coding when you can't get a history from the patient; billing     for travel time

     Coding Consult: What's in the stars?

     Coding Consult: Answers to your questions about . . .a patient who's new to     the practice but not the doctor; assigning codes based on symptoms or findings;     coding for a face lesion biopsy

     Coding Consult: Homing in on nursing home codes.

     Coding Consult: Answers to your questions about . . .vision screening; sports     physicals; reciprocal billing

     Coding Consult: You can get paid for ED services.

     Coding Consult: Answers to your questions about. . . medication evaluations;     BP checks; two office visits a day

     Coding Consult: Nailing down pre-op clearance exams.

     Coding Consult: Answers to your questions about. . .psychiatric codes; referrals;     Xylocaine injections.

     Coding Consult: Six top coding tips.

     Coding Consult: Answers to your questions about. . .phone calls; patient fearing     STDs; two providers, one lesion.

     Coding Consult: New codes you need to know.

    Coding Consult: Answers to your questions about. . . pathology and radiology     codes; home colorectal screening; Depo-Provera injections.

     Calming the waters in group practice conflicts.

     The day I learned how to be a doctor.

     Does your compensation formula pass the smell test?

     The Feds ease antitrust rulescautiously.

    Earnings Survey: More hours, more patients, no raise?

     Computer Consult: Toward a handheld EMR.

     Computer Consult: More "dumb" questions smart doctors ask.

     Your 2001 taxes: Get the software you need.

     Computer Consult: Voice recognition programs speak your language.

     Computer Consult: Drowning in documents? Scan 'em!

     EMRs cost too much? This group says No Way!

     Computer Consult: I'd rather give up ATMs.

     Computer Consult: Beam it up, Doctor.

     Computer Consult: EMR? Not exactly. Good enough? For now.

     Computer Consult: How to get the lowdown on EMR software.

     Computer Consult: What if the power goes off?

    Computer Consult: Keep tabs on who sees what.

     "We can take care of ourselves, Dad".

     What caused this young mother's sudden death?