COLORADO MEDICINE Cumulative index Volume 90, 1993 Official Journal of the Colorado Medical Society Publication Office: 7800 E. Dorado Place, Englewood, Colorado 80111 Telephone: 303 779-5455 Sandra L. Maloney, Executive Editor William S. Pierson, Managing Editor Michael P. Thompson, Assistant Managing Editor Gil Maestas, li, Communications Specialist ADA Case Study, Best, December Med Fax Colo. Physicians Caring in Other Countries, 323 Additional AIDS surveillance case definition, 417 Colorado Air Quality Commission, 308 Advance Directives, 280 Colorado Coalition Moves Ahead in Immunization, 418 AIDS in the World, a Global Report (Book Review), Colorado Medical Society and the Threatened Coleman, 64 Balkanization of the Profession, Bailey, 339 Always Do Right, Bailey, 396 Colorado Medical Society Guidelines for Health System AMA Education and Research Foundation, 373 Reform, Bogin, Parkin, 362 AMA Health Care Reform meeting report, Lewis, 174 Colorado Medicine Now Fully Recycled, October Med AMA Interim Meeting Report Quinn, January Med Fax Fax AMA medical professional liability insurance survey Colorado Proctor Availability Program, 110 update, Best, May Med Fax Colorado Rural Health Resource Center, 91 AMA Political education conference, 405 Colorado Trust Begins $4.5 Million Community Health AMA UPDATE, 224 Initiative, 25 AMA’s New Partnership comfort level questionable, Colorado Women’s Cancer Control Initiative, Chrvala, Selner, 228 141, 192 Ambulatory Surgery Centers Face New Regulations, Colorado’s Air Quality: Physician input needed, 185 May Med Fax ColoradoCare and Cost Containment Town meetings, American Lung Association calls for action, 242 September Med Fax, 304 Americans with Disabilities Act, Best, August Med Fax ColoradoCare Hearings, November Med Fax Annual Meeting 1993, 201, 231, 265, 345 - COMMITTEE UPDATE, 18, 62, 92, 145, 184 Anti-Dumping Act, Best, November Med Fax COMPAC Membership, 143 Anti-Dumping Statute, Best, April Med Fax COMPAC needs you, October Med Fax Arizona Dentists Prosecuted for Antitrust, Best, April COMPONENT SOCIETY EXECUTIVES, 382 Med Fax Confidential medical care important to adolescents, Assignment of Benefits law allows direct payment, Thompson, 244 Parkin, Register, 91 Continuous Quality Improvement, Maestas, 89 Billing Medicare for Hospital Initial Observation Care, COPIC Announces 1994 Rates, 369 Register, 180 COPIC COMMENT, 9 BOARD HIGHLIGHTS, 21, 90, 187, 283. 308, 354 Corporate Practice of Medicine Survey, 88 Board of Directors, Introducing, 22 Corporate Practice of Medicine, February Med Fax BOOK REVIEW, 64, 402 Corporate Practice of Medicine, Jacobs, 151 Boucher elected to Colorado Trust, December Med Fax Corporate Practice of Medicine, Truitt, 47 Call for Nominations (official offices of CMS), 191, 237 Corporatization of Health Care, Bristow, 358 Call for Nominations, 116, 167 CPEP, 109 Cancer Help Available, 24 CPR Directives, 181 Caveat Emptor, Maestas, December Med Fax CPR Directives, April Med Fax CCVMS Sponsors health care forums; 430 CPR Directives, Stein, 410 Child Abuse Training, 25 Credentialing and Peer Review Project on hold, 229 Child Fatality Review, 195 Critical Time for Organized Medicine, Truitt, Maloney, CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING, 36, 71, 111, 156, 196, 95 246, 284, 328, 384, 420, 456 CU creating doctors for rural Coiorado, 110 CLIA grace period extended again, January Med Fax CU-Medline Plus debuts, 418 CMS Education and Research Foundation, Rainer, 372 Data Bank Self Query Requests, 321 CMS Member Fellow of ACPM, 449 DEA new numbers , 70 CMS works with ASSIST to curb health care provider Decisions that pay off, Pierson, 448 smoking, 242 Defined Benefit Plans, 61 Health Care Reform Update, Pierson, 10 Delegate Attendance at AM 93, 352 Health Care Reform—Managed Competition, Lewis, Delegate Attendance at IM 93, 188 108 Demonstrators come to CMS offices, 66 Health Insurance Quiz, 177 Denver Goes Smoke Free, October Med Fax Health System Reform Committee, October Med Fax Denver Plastic Surgeon elected to board of Doctors’ Health System Reform, Bogin, Parkin, 273 Company, 242 Health Workbook, 70 Diabetes Patients Needed, 70 Hepatitis A Reminder, 62 Diabetes Prevalence and Morbidity in Colorado Resi- Holiday Sharing Card, 459 dents, 1980-1991, Starr-Bocian, 318 Hospitals Map War on Medic Ban, 75 Direct Access Link Phone system, October Med Fax How They Voted now available, September Med Fax Disabled Activist Wade Blank dies in vacation accident, How to compete under managed competition, Truitt, 7 105 Humanization of Medicine at Interim Meeting, 95 Do Trees Grow to the Sky?, Truitt, 168 Humanization of Medicine at Interim Meeting, February Doctor Hero?, 380 Med Fax Doctors Day Donations, 115 Hurricane in Paradise, Pagle, 263 Doctors Day Hobby Show, December Med Fax | thought you’d never ask, Pierson, 416 Doctors’ Day 1993, Maestas, 182 IN MEMORY, 31 Domestic Violence is Preventable, Nolan, 279 Independent Medical Examinations, Best, August Med Dunn, James R. Received Community Service Award, Fax 344 Influenza season is here again, 417 Duty to Warn non-patient, Best, November Med Fax Integrating the Health Care System, Truitt, 87 EACH/RPCH Project Update, 280 Interim Meeting 94, 449 Economic Credentialing: Can Physicians and Hospitals Interim Meeting 1993, 54, 95, 186 Find Common Ground?, July Med Fax Interim Meeting Deadlines, February Med Fax EKG & New Doc Payment cuts, September Med Fax Interview, The Batuello, 20 Elections a success, 11 Invitation to CMS Leadership Conference, Bailey, 173 Electronic Claims, Register, 414 Invitation to Golf Tourney, Truitt, 132 Emergency consultation for HMO-hospital patients, Invitation to President Elect’s Planning Conference, Elliott, 152 Bailey, 131 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of Is there life after health care reform?, Lewis, 404 1986, Best, April Med Fax It’s Not “Business as Usual” at CMS, Maloney 48 Entertainment is killing us, Coleman, 312 Kelly, James P. to leave Sports Medicine team, 227 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S UPDATE, Maloney, 48, Kids in Need, 418 129, 170, 216, 260, 398, 433 Lay Midwifery Outcomes Reporting, 449 Family and Medical Leave Act to take effect August 6, Legislative testifiers for ‘93, 229 August Med Fax Let’s talk about America’s health care system, Golbert, Family Practice, Justin, 438 Ford, Parry, 154\ Feds Consider Electronic Records Requirement, 25 Letter to Colorado physicians, Carlson, 63 Forgotten Plague (Book Review), Coleman, 402 Letter to Kathy Walsh, KCNC-TV, Allen, 194 Frenchy, Thompson, S., 375 LETTERS, 15, 63, 194, 310, 450 Friendship Bridge from the United States to Vietnam, License Renewal, April Med Fax Maestas, 148 LOBBY, THE, Lewis, 404, 434 From Physician to Provider to Vendor, Truitt, 213 LOBBY, THE, Rapp, 12, 58, 133, 218 Future of Health Care in Colorado, Thompson, 49 Locum Tenens Project, March Med Fax Get Acquainted with Medical Informatics, 323 Locum Tenens, 275 Golf fund raiser a success, 303 McCartney Elected to ASIM Board of Trustees, Novem- Great Hospital Scrap, 75 ber Med Fax HEALTH CARE DEFINITIONS, 315, 368, 415, 446 Medicaid Reform, 58 HEALTH CARE FINANCING, Register, Parkin, 16, 91, MEDICAL NEWS, 24, 69, 109, 196, 242, 278, 380, 418, 138, 180, 306, 414 449 HEALTH GARE SYSTEM REFORM, Parkin, 222, 228, Medical License Renewal Deadline Nears, May Med 273, 304, 362, 436 Fax HEALTH DEPARTMENT, 141, 192, 279, 318 Medical License Renewal Deadline, March Med Fax Health Care Reform becomes TV entertainment grist, Medical Student Component, 375 412 Medical Student View of Annual Meeting, Scholz, 375 Health Care Reform Position Statement, April Insert Medicare Part B and Private Cortracting, Best, April Health Care Reform Train is Out of the Station, March Med Fax Med Fax Medicare Patients Can Choose, Best February Med Fax Prescription Drug Abuse, 449 Medicare/Medicaid Program Fraud, Best, March Med Prescription medicines for medically indigent, 195 Fax PRESIDENT’S LETTER Truitt, 7, 47, 87, 127, 168, 257, Medicine in the Twenty-first Century, Aukerman, 234 295 Member Benefit Upgrades, April Med Fax PRESIDENT’S LETTER, Bailey, 339, 397, 431 Mentor Program for Medical Students, Scholz, 277 Private contracting with Medicare Patients, September MI Provider profiles, 408 Med Fax Modifiers 78 and 79 — Relationships, Steffen, 304 Proceedings of the House of Delegates at AM 93, 350 More OSHA Questions and Answers, Livingston, 406 Proceedings of the House of Delegates at IM 93, 186 National AIDS Control Bill, February Med Fax Product Liability and Hospitals, Best, August Med Fax National coalition opposes “enterprise liability”, 230 Proud to be a physician!, Shanks, 450 National Physician Group Enters Colorado Politics, 24 Public Health Scholars, 69 National Practitioner Data Bank, Best February Med Questions and Answers on OSHA Regulations and Fax more, Livingston, 136 NEW COMPONENT SOCIETY OFFICERS, 32 Radiation Data Needed, 70 NEW MEMBERS, 26, 107, 324, 383, 451 Re-Engineering Health Care, Truitt, 257 New Direction for CFMC, Dunn, 442 Recent amendments to Code of Colorado Regulations, New Hope in Antitrust Arena, 25 227 New Information Service, 323 Recognizing Inventors, 69 New Journal, 381 Regional AMA meetings to expand communications, New law affects deductibility of dues, 378 381 New Safe Harbors from OIG, Best February Med Fax Regulatory Changes from Board of Health, 195 Nine Health Fair, 104 Report to the Federation , Todd, 226 Nine Health Fair, Bogin, 440 Reportable Condition Changes face public hearings, Nominating Committee Election results from AM 93, November Med Fax 351 Romer Addresses Health Care, 51 Non-discrimination stance lauded, Justin, 310 RUMINATIONS, Pierson, 38, 74, 114, 158, 198, 250, Not the kind of recognition you’d want to write home 286, 330, 386, 422, 458 about, Best, November Med. Fax Rural Health Resource Center, May Med Fax OBITUARY—Carol Packard Tempest, 170 Scholarship leads to Unique Doctor, Thompson, 100 Open letter to the members of the 59th Session of the Science Fair Winners, 190 Colorado General Assembly, Richards, 15 Seiner elected ACAI President, 69 Oregon Plan Revised, Best, March Med Fax September is Women in Medicine Month!, McDonald, OSHA Inspections, 102 298 OSHA News, Livingston, 444 Sixty Minutes and “excellent show”, 62 OSHA Training Requirements, Livingston, 377 Some Day in May, Coleman, 172 OSHA Update, 19 Speaker confirmed for IM 93, April Med Fax Our last chance... Our greatest challenge, Truitt, 295 SPECIALTIES, 308 Parkin, Jo, New Employee, 21 Sunrise/Sunset Committee Approves Plan to License Patients Needed for Smoking Cessation Study, 109 Naturopaths, October Med Fax Patients Wanted for Asthma Study, 109 Surgery Resident Receives Award, 381 People to People, Rainer, 240 Survey of Colorado’s Internists Completed, Claasen, et. PHYSICIAN PROFILE—Jim Parker, MD, Rocky al., 238 Mountain HMO, 178 Symposium to Probe Health Effects of Radiation PHYSICIAN RECOGNITION AWARDS, 237, 455 Teaching Physicians, 381 Physician Insurers Association of America, Lewis, 235 Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Fox, 309 Physician Insurers Association of America, Pierson, Ten areas likely to be included in the Clinton Health 236 Care Plan, McCartney, 224 Physician Insurers Association of America, Thrower, Termination from managed care plans, September Med 236 Fax Physician’s Directory Cards in the Mail, 94, 130 That's all there is left of it (former CMS building at 18th Physician’s Financial Program a success, July Med Fax & Williams), 191 Physician-Patient Relationship, Best, November Med Times Change, Thomasson, 316 Fax Tobacco Sting a Success, October Med Fax Physicians look to a dim future, 413 Today’s legislators Determine Tomorrow’s Medicine, Planning for Retirement, Thompson, 60 143 Positive Smoke Free Signs, April Med Fax TV show triggers statute of limitations on negligent Possible Scam Alert, August Med Fax credentialing claim, Best, November Med Fax Practice Guideline for urinary incontinence, 195 Understanding Health Care Integration (Part 1), Lewis, 276 are?, Shenkel, 171 Understanding Health Care Integration (Part 2), Lewis, What Next? Legal System Reform?, Weil, 355 311 What will Clinton and Congress do to medicine?, Unethical IMEs?, February Med Fax Maloney, 129 University of Colorado School of Medicine Admissions What will Romer and the Legislature do to medicine?, Committee, Truitt, 302 _ Maloney, 129 Vermont Governor to Keynote AM 93, August Med Fax Who handles Medicare Medical Reviews, Best, Novem- Vernon, Dr. Tom joins Merck, 278 ber Med Fax Vertical Integration, July Med Fax Who Serves and Selects, Silverberg, 53 Vertical Integration, Tax Exempt Status and the Anti- Why Clinical Practice Guidelines?, Lewis, 320 kickback laws, Best, May Med Fax Will health care demand continue to increase?, Truitt, Veterans Alert, 69 127 Volunteer Doctors, 21 WIM Speaker, August Med Fax Waltzing with Gorillas, Maloney, 398 Women’s Health, Schroeder, 400 Washington Appointment (Denise Denton), 109 Workers Comp Fee Schedule used inappropriately, Welcome to the CU Medical School Class of 1997, 376 Parkin, Register, 138 What kind of chumps do insurance companies think we Year in Medicine—1982, Pierson, 38 A child cries for food. 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