HIPAA Heartburn
We interact with enough providers every week to know that nobody wants to have to worry about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It’s not fun, and it’s not sexy. But it’s important.
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!
We interact with enough providers every week to know that nobody wants to have to worry about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It’s not fun, and it’s not sexy. But it’s important.
A Compliance Officer (CO) is a workforce member or outside person that takes on the role and responsibility of implementing and managing the Compliance program for your facility.
Just in the past few weeks, our Help Desk and our Solutions line have been inundated with calls from both members and non-members of KMC University indicating that they have received records requests for groups of patients. Folks, when this happens, it’s usually an audit. We have seen enough the past few weeks to confirm that audits are on the rise again.
In today’s practice climate, patients want more electronic contact and fewer phone calls. For some practices, this is easy because it is how the doctor grew up... with texting and emails. But for others, starting a new text or email reminder service can be more difficult, and they may turn to trusted advisors or a vendor to set it up and manage it for them. But be careful!
The term Protected Health Information (PHI) has been used since the introduction of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996). Yet there are still individuals and entities that do not have a full understanding of what Protected Health Information (PHI) is and encompasses. The lack of this knowledge has the potential to place you, your staff and your clinic at risk for HIPAA Compliance.
Many offices love to meet potential patients through public screenings. But what is a screening? Is it legal or is it an inducement? And what’s the purpose of doing a Chiropractic Screening for marketing purposes?
Much of your training has focused on anatomy, terminology, biomechanics, techniques and all the things involved in moving segments and aligning spines. But what about your practice?
Whether performed by the doctor or appropriately delegated to qualified team members, all ancillary services must be recorded in the same way as the primary manipulative treatment.
A Hydro-Bed modality, aka hydrotherapy table, water massager, aqua table or hydro-massager, is a device in which water is used to administer a massage-type therapy. These devices are usually in a table format and are available in several variations.
Are you stuck, as are many practices, with claims that have never been paid? You sent them out the door after you did your part and waited… and waited… and waited. Or maybe you have noticed there is a shortage of money in the practice compared to last year even though you have added many new patients and services.