• 1 Know Your Carriers Policy to Avoid Errors When You Bill for a Splint Applied by a Nurse or Technician

• 2 News Brief: HHS OIG Targets Critical Care Codes in 2001 Work Plan

• 3 Medicare Increases Fees to ED Physicians for 2001

• 4 Reader Question: Starred Procedures

• 5 Reader Question: When Length is Not Available

• 6 Reader Question: Waiving of Coinsurance

• 7 Reader Question: Two Nosebleeds, One Day

• 8 Reader Question: 49080* vs. 49420*

• 9 Reader Question: Teaching Physician and Ultrasounds

• 10 Reader Question: Foreign Body Removal Without Anesthesia

• 11 You Be the Coder: Lacerations in the ED