Communication is important in all aspects of our life whether it is with our children, partners, parents or patients. In an article that appeared in the August 13, 2017, issue of Dynamic Chiropractic titled Improve Communication, Patient Retention and Cash
Chiropractic Assistants- Partners in Healing
I am grateful to be among people who live and practice what I know chiropractic to be, one of the most powerful (if not the most) healing professions in the world. One of the many things that am grateful for
Cash Practice or Insurance Practice? That is the Question.
For the past decade I have watched many practices go from “accepting assignment” from insurance carriers to “cash practices” and also worked with “cash practices” to practices that “accept assignment” from a selected insurance carriers. Either way there is a
Playing the Insurance Game- You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too
Quite often I will be approached by an established doctor who wants to get out of all the insurance networks they joined and become a “cash practice” and at the same time I am approached by doctors who have “cash
Managing Medicare: Winners Never Quit, Quitters Never Win
I am still hearing from chiropractic offices here in California that they are treating patients with coverage and not billing Medicare. Yikes. Once you get your license from the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners here in California you are required
An Ounce of Prevention- Prevent Reactivation and Plug The Holes in Your Bucket
Have you ever woken-up in the middle of the night asking, what happened to a patient you should have seen six weeks ago but haven’t? Quite often I am asked by doctors to work with their team on re-activating patients
Changes to Medicare Diagnosis Effective 10.1.2017
If your practice is in Northern California, please note that there are several changes to the acceptable diagnoses for services on or after October 1, 2017. Here is a link to the notice that Noridian posted recently. https://med.noridianmedicare.com/web/jeb/article-detail/-/view/10525/chiropractic-services-lcd-r6 Do a
Changes to ICD-10-CM Effective 10.1.2017
Here is a link that will take you to the changes that will go into effect on October 1, 2017 https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2018-ICD-10-CM-and-GEMs.html Of course not all changes will affect the Chiropractic community but it might be worth your while to glance
ICD-10 Up-Dates
We are now into our second year of ICD-10. Be aware that the new set of codes with additional, revisions and deletions went into effect on October 1, 2016. Although there were changes there relatively few apply to chiropractic. If
Pre-Paid Plans in California – Are They Legal?
As many of you know the BCE issued a notice in 1996 stating the following: “As a general rule, any pre-paid plan which involves the assumption of risk may be the business of insurance. The person or organization intending to