• 1 News You Can Use: Brace Yourself for a 5.1 Percent Pay Cut Next Year

• 2 Carrier Spotlight: Cash In on Empire's Changes to Mammography Payments

• 3 October's Recipe for Billing Success: Modify Your Flu, PPV Coding After Oct. 1

• 4 Look Beyond CMS Web Site For NPI Applications

• 5 READER QUESTIONS: Base Infusion Code on Method, Route

• 6 READER QUESTIONS: Give Collection Agencies All the Details

• 7 READER QUESTIONS: Consider a Financial-Hardship Policy

• 8 You Be the Coder: Switching to EHR? Weigh These Pros and Cons