Chiropractic Resources
As part of our responsibility to serve and advance the profession, we strive to keep you up to date with expert advice and helpful tips from peers and experts in chiropractic.
The Importance of Eligibility Verification
For many providers, the ability to verify a patient’s eligibility prior to submitting a claim has been out of their reach. However, patient eligibility verification is a crucial part of any practice’s process to reduce claim rejections and...
5 Steps for a Strong Denials Management Process
How much time does it take your practice to manage claims denials? It’s probably much more than you would like to spend. Of all efforts you put toward ensuring your practice is financially successful, managing denials may be the most critical...
Chiropractic Diagnosis Codes for Medicare in 2019: Choose Wisely!
Many Chiropractors think that diagnosing Medicare patients is one of the simpler things they must do. After all, most Part B Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) provide a list of approved diagnosis codes to use. Many even provide guidance on the...
What to Look for When Choosing Chiropractic Malpractice Insurance
Doctors in other fields are more likely to experience lawsuits than a chiropractor, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen to you. If you are hit with a lawsuit and don’t have sufficient insurance, you could end up in bankruptcy while also losing...
How to Help Your Patients Make the Most Out of Their Annual Insurance Benefits
It’s nearly the end of 2018, and while people are getting into the holiday spirit, there are also practical matters to consider when it comes to insurance benefits. Advising your patients on how to make the most of their benefits by year’s end is a...
Unusual Medicare Billing Codes: Don’t Make These Mistakes in the New Year!
Selecting Medicare billing codes may be one of the simplest tasks we have, because there are only three spinal chiropractic manipulative treatment (CMT) codes that are covered under Medicare. However, our audits reveal significant errors. Most revolve...
QPP Advancing Care Information Category Rebranded as Prompting Interoperability
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) organization has recently made a terminology change to the Advancing Care Information (ACI) category of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). This category, which includes the measures that must be...
Therapy Codes for DC’s and Rejected Claims
Are you noticing that you have been receiving rejected claims for physical therapy services? On January 1, 2017, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released MLN Matters Number: MM10176 a notice indicating that certain services were...