This Documentation Gap Analysis allows us to evaluate the significant components of your current Documentation program. It should take less than 5 minutes to complete.
Sometimes you need more than a self-service, on-demand program and need an expert to analyze your issues, train the corrections, and help you implement the changes, so they stick
This course explains the significant role chiropractic care can play in the sports industry and how a DC can succeed as a Sports Chiropractor. Start your steps to success here!
The most effective chiropractic OIG compliance programs are scaled according to the size of the practice!
Without checks and balances in place, a practice is at risk for mistakes, missing money, and out of balance accounts. Here are several procedures you can put into effect to protect your office:
When a doctor does the work of diagnosing, treating, and documenting, there are both risks and rewards. All doctors want to be paid for the clinically reasonable and medically necessary services and procedures rendered to patients, so it is important to understand the contracts that might be required and each company’s definition of medical necessity.
It’s possibly one of the least understood, yet the concepts are clear, based on the definitions provided. Read on for our clarified explanations.
A CAs job is never done. Offices need to have systems and procedures in place that will manage both outbound claims, inbound checks, and accounts receivable.
The term “Routine Office Visit” describes treatment visits where the patient is being seen for the execution of the written treatment plan at the beginning of the Episode of Care. The documentation of these visits contains the details of patients’ progress, or lack thereof, as they advance through the stated plan.
Social Media is one of the most cost-efficient methods of marketing. It is a great way to connect to people in your area and attract new patients, but it can become your foe if you, as a healthcare provider, ignore your obligations to protect health information.
Now that we've had a month to settle into the new Evaluation and Management (E/M) coding rules that went into effect at the beginning of the year, the questions are getting more specific and refined.
One of the more common questions we get at our Help Desk is what to do with Explanations of Benefits (EOBs) for paid claims once the payment has been posted. Regardless of the payer class, whether personal injury, worker’s compensation, or simple commercial insurance, you have many choices and can select one that is best for your practice.
We have been preparing all year for the inevitable start date in January, and now is the time to learn how the coding changes affect you!
More and more, third-party payers have written medical review policy deeming roller table type traction as experimental, investigational, and unproven. However, because it is usually billed as 97012, Traction, the payer wouldn’t know that the service performed was roller table and would likely pay it. It’s up to the provider to be aware of these kinds of rules. Billing with a deceiving code could be dangerous.
