1998 Index
Articles from past years can be looked up in the
Archives indexes or via the
site search.
Dec. 28:
Top story: E&M guidelines
- Feature: media training
- Interim meeting: Medicare fraud control,
Medicare lab test coverage,
AMAP accreditation,
physician involvement,
AMA budget
and tobacco settlement
- Editorial: AMA revamp
- and news summaries
Dec. 21:
Top story: AMA revamp
- Feature: medical history
- Interim meeting: prisoner organ donation,
IMG academic discrimination,
resident housestaff organizations
and access to care
- Editorial: Dr. Magee holiday message
- and news summaries
Dec. 14:
Top story: FSMB oversight
- Feature: pain management
- Interim meeting: Medicare audits
and outpatient pay
- Editorial: Internet patient information
- and news summaries
Dec. 7:
Top story: PROs
- Feature: drug delivery
- Interim meeting: AMA governance
- Editorial: public health
- Log On: online doctor directories
- and news summaries
Nov. 23/30:
Top story: Medicare practice expense
- Feature: medical MBAs
- Editorial: patient safety
- and news summaries
Nov. 16:
Top story: Medicare practice expense
- Feature: artificial blood
- Editorial: Dr. Slepian
- and news summaries
Nov. 9:
Top story: HMO liability
- Editorial: gun safety
- and news summaries
Nov. 2:
Top story: HMO liability
- Editorial: physician practice management
- Technically Speaking: videoconferencing
- and news summaries
Oct. 26:
Top story: Medicare HMOs
- plus patient protection
- Editorial: ERISA
- and news summaries
Oct. 19:
Top story: organ transplant
- Editorial: political involvement
- and news summaries
Oct. 12:
Top story: offshore medical school
- Editorial: family violence
- and news summaries
Oct. 5:
Top story: Medicare MSAs
- plus Y2K and medical devices
- Editorial: patient protection
- Log On: outcomes measurement
- and news summaries
Sept. 28:
Top story: patient protection
- Editorial: the uninsured
- and news summaries
Sept. 21:
Top story: Medicare reform
- Editorial: tobacco control
- NETworking: the world
- and news summaries
Sept. 14:
Top story: insurance reform
- Editorial: women in medicine
- and news summaries
Sept. 7:
Top story: off-label drug promotion
- Editorial: dispute resolution
- Log On: pattern-recognition systems
- and news summaries
Aug. 24/31:
Top story: discipline
- Editorial: patient privacy
- and news summaries
Aug. 17:
Top story: Sunbeam settlement
- plus Dr. Anderson interview
- Editorial: year 2000
- NETworking: domain names
- and news summaries
Aug. 10:
Top story: year 2000 and medical devices
plus starting this week "Y2K and health care" coverage
- Editorial: patient bill of rights
- and news summaries
Aug. 3:
Top story: patient protection
- Editorial: individually based insurance
- Log On: doctors' Web sites
- and news summaries
July 27:
Top story: physician-assisted suicide
- Editorial: Medicare fraud
- and news summaries
July 20:
Top story: group mergers, antitrust
- Editorial: medical literacy
- Annual meeting: scope of practice
plus extended meeting coverage
- and news summaries
July 13:
Top story: GOP patient protection bill
- Editorial: tobacco settlement
- Annual meeting: AMA physician income data
plus extended meeting coverage
- and news summaries
July 6:
Top story: Medicare reform
- Editorial: clinical test results
- Log On: Year 2000 liability
- Annual meeting: individually based insurance
plus extended meeting coverage
- and news summaries
June 29:
Top story: E&M checklists
- Editorial: home care guidelines
- Annual meeting: Sunbeam report
plus extended meeting coverage
- and news summaries
June 15/22:
Top story: United-Humana merger
- Editorial: new quality panel
- NETworking: cool sites
- Annual meeting: past meetings
plus extended meeting coverage
- and news summaries
June 8:
Top story: new quality panel
- Editorial: Rockford collective bargaining
- Annual meeting: CEJA seeks input
plus extended meeting coverage
- and news summaries
June 1:
Top story: new AMA chief executive
- Editorial: AMNews redesign
- Log On: outsourcing medical records
- Annual meeting: Dr. Dickey profile
plus extended meeting coverage
- and news summaries
May 25:
Top story: federal health EDI regulations
- Editorial: medicare user fees
- NETworking: Internet bandwidth
- Annual meeting: canditate profiles: Councils
plus extended meeting coverage
- and news summaries
May 18:
Top story: N.Y. assisted reproduction guidelines
- Editorial: AMA Annual Meeting
- Annual meeting: Candidate profiles Leadership plus extended Board
plus extended meeting coverage
- and news summaries
May 11:
Top story: AMA fly-in, E&M guidelines, HCFA audit
- Editorial: E&M, physician trust in goverment
- and news summaries
May 4:
Top story: transplant patient noncompliance
- Editorial: quality standards
- and news summaries
April 27:
Top story: product endorsement
- More news: medicare user fees
- Editorial: drunken driving
- and news summaries
April 20:
Top story: individual health insurance
- Editorial: genetic testing
- NETworking: evidence-based medicine
- and news summaries
April 13:
Top story: physician-assisted suicide
- Editorial: sexual harassment
- Log On: minimally invasive surgery
- and news summaries
April 6:
Top story: E&M audit payment denial
- Editorial: HIV discrimination
- and news summaries
March 23/30:
Top story: Clinton speech
- Editorial: criminalizing medicine
- and news summaries
March 16:
Top story: criminalizing medicine
- Editorial: Medicare's future
- NETworking: search engines
- and news summaries
March 9:
Top story: FDA reform
- Editorial: AMA Vision Statement
- Log On: physician privacy
- and news summaries
March 2:
Top story: AMA on E&M
- Editorial: organ donation
- and news summaries
Feb. 23:
Top story: human cloning bills
- Editorial: 1998 health legislation
- and news summaries
Feb. 16:
Top story: 1999 health budget
- Editorial: Mesa IPA turnaround
- NETworking: spam
- and news summaries
Feb. 9:
Top story: E&M coding guidelines
- Editorial: method patents
- Log On: Internet2
- and news summaries
Feb. 2:
Top story: MedPAC report
- Editorial: junk science
- and news summaries
Jan. 26:
Top story: Stark II rules
- Editorial: reconstructive surgery
- and news summaries
Jan. 19:
Top story: Medicare private contracting
- Editorial: managed care contracts
- NETworking: medical technology
- and news summaries
Jan. 12:
Top story: prenatal-test lawsuit
- Editorials: getting involved; remembering Hawkeye
- Log On: computers for medical students
- and news summaries
Jan. 5:
Top story: Columbia/HCA downsizing
- Editorial: AMA and product endorsement
- and news summaries
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