If your license expires in between April 1, 2020 and July 1, 2020, please read this very important notice from the BCE: California Board of Chiropractic Examiners Impact of Executive Order N-39-20 and other important information regarding the re-licensing during
2020 ICD-10 Code Changes as of 10/1/2019
CMS has published the list of the changes to the ICD-10 CM codes which will go into effect on October 1, 2019. To learn more about the changes click here.
Medicare Documentation Job Aid For Doctors of Chiropractic
I have provided a link to a new article from CMS to help you if and when you receive a request for documentation for services that you rendered. I suggest you do a random audit on a current Medicare patient’s
CPT Changes in 2020 & 2021
If you are interested in knowing a little more about what may happen click here to learn more. The thing that will affect us will be changes to the Evaluation and Management Services for Office and Other Outpatient Services 99201-99215
Improve Communication, Patient Retention and Cash Flow
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
Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) Information on RAs and MSNs
Recently I have received calls and emails from you asking what I know about Medicare recouping money from them because their patient was a QMB. QMB patients have both Medicare benefits through original Medicare and Medi-Cal (Medicaid if your are not
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