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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!
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
The most effective chiropractic OIG compliance programs are scaled according to the size of the practice!
There are several steps that can be taken to improve your documentation, coding, and compliance and not let your resolution remain unfulfilled.
There is a great deal of conflicting information about how long medical records must be retained. Providers can even fear discarding anything at all. Let us clear up some of the confusion!
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.
With private insurers falling in line behind the government, it has become increasingly common for records requests and audits to come flying in from all directions. Because of this focus, DCs and CAs must learn more about rules and regulations, adding “documentation experts” to their many hats.
During a recent after-dinner trip to a favorite ice cream eatery, I happened into the ladies’ room. Hanging next to the sink was a detailed and illustrated explanation of how to wash your hands. Honestly, do any of us really need a primer on how to wash our hands? Of course not! But this national chain ice cream eatery was practicing what most of corporate America knows is vital to running a business: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). If they wanted their employees to properly wash their hands, they were going to spell it out, step by step.
No office expects it… you go to work; you go home and get up the next day to start all over again. The phone rings and you cannot believe your ears. You have worked there for years and now everything has changed in just one phone call. No one expected it.
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.”
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.
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!
