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.
New PIP & Workers Comp Electronic Billing Laws Enacted in New Jersey
New Jersey has passed state laws mandating that bills for Personal Injury Protection (PIP) and Workers’ Compensation claims must be billed electronically. How does this affect you? For chiropractors in the state of New Jersey, this means that...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mitigating Risk in Your Practice
As a savvy chiropractic practice owner, you know that there is much more in your basket of risks than a simple slowdown in their flow of new and returning patients. Staffing changes, malpractice lawsuits, cash flow problems, and software and compliance...