• 1 Coding Corner: Avoid Fraud Charges and Ensure Payment for 'High-Risk Patients

• 2 Compliance Help Desk: Detect HIPAA Violations

• 3 You Be the Expert: Appeal 'Untimely Filing'

• 4 Billing Basics: When Payers Back Out, Handle Patients With Care

• 5 Coding Corner: CPT Clears Up Cloudy Starred Procedures

• 6 Regulatory Update: Payments Increase 1.5% for Physicians in 2004, 2005

• 7 Reader Question: One-Two Punch

• 8 Reader Question: A Marriage of Convenience?

• 9 Reader Question: A Map for Reporting Topography

• 10 Reader Question: Higher Than HIPAA