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!
Historically, chiropractic practices have depended on manipulation, ultrasound, stim, and heat - in other words, passive care. Insurance carriers did not demand the rigid standards they do today to prove medical necessity.
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.
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.
When it comes to reimbursement, most chiropractors and team members believe they are not being paid every dime they deserve. Third-party reimbursements have indeed been shrinking while documentation requirements have increased. As a result, it has become practically impossible to thrive in an insurance only practice.
Creating consistency in the systems you put in place is easy, but compliance can be complicated, overwhelming, and confusing. It is not surprising that many doctors zone out when they hear the word “compliance.”
Online learning is the new normal. You've heard them, the buzz words since the Covid crisis has changed how most of us go about our daily routines. This "new normal" has affected everything we do from how we work, how we shop, how our children learn, and even how we visit the grandparents.
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.
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.
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.
