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.
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...
New Medicare ID Cards
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that they will be issuing new ID cards. Starting in April 2018 Medicare will be mailing new cards to beneficiaries. These cards will have a new identification number that is...
What is Chiropractic Software? The Complete Guide
Even if you are a solo practitioner, you have a partner in your practice – your chiropractic software. Just as you would want the best possible human partner to share your practice, it’s also critical to do your homework and take the time to choose...
The State of Chiropractic Billing
On average, 30 percent of patients walk out of a chiropractic office without paying their bill. That is a disturbing statistic, and means your practice is forced to spend time and therefore money chasing down delinquent accounts. For many practices, it...
5 Things to Know About Chiropractic Compliance
Have you noticed that more of your peers are receiving records requests? Are there more stories circulating about chiropractic audits? These are not rumors, unfortunately, the number of records requests has been increasing. The increase in requests...
Preparing for 90-Day Reporting?
If you haven’t started reporting to the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), this may mean a few things. Maybe you are reporting to the test pace and waiting for the right moment to get that one submission in order. Perhaps you are taking the...
What is the Future of Quality Reporting?
In our previous posts, we have noted the lack of Chiropractic-based Quality measures covered by the Quality Payment Program (QPP). This has troubled many chiropractors and many have wondered where chiropractors fit into the program. The ChiroTouch team...
Proposed Changes to MIPS in 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released another proposal regarding calendar year 2018, the second year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). In this latest release, CMS is focusing on reducing burden to both reporting providers...
PQRS Experience Report
As of January 1st, 2017, the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) ended and gave way to the Quality category under the new Quality Payment Program. Attestation for PQRS was accepted until March 31st, 2017. Any penalty or payment incurred under that...
Data Breaches in Healthcare and How to Protect Your Patient Payment Data – Part II
Many healthcare offices make the mistake of thinking they are too small for a cyber attack – considering that only the largest ones, like the Anthem Breach, make news. But breaches are not just for the big boys. Small and medium-sized businesses...
Data Breaches in Healthcare and How to Protect Your Patient Payment Data – Part 1
2016 set the record for data breaches. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s (ITRC) yearly breach list, there were 781 reported breaches in 2015 and 1,093 in 2016 – with 2016 representing a whopping 40% increase. With 456 reported...
Compliance Programs for Chiropractors
Compliance Programs for Chiropractors have evolved and if you’ve come to the right place to seek clarity around the purpose of the Quality section of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Or do you still need some information on the essentials of...
8 Ways To Get Your Time Back
Time is the most valuable of all commodities, and for you as a DC, this is no exception. No one can make more of it, and every moment that passes can never be reclaimed. Therefore, it’s imperative to do what you can not to waste it, in this regard the...
Maximizing Your Benefits from MACRA/MIPS
The long wait is over! On Friday, October 14, 2016, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rule implementing The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). The MACRA act establishes new ways to pay...