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 5/6/08
Facts or not Facts? Just because it is in print, doesnt make it true Read more
5/5/08
Consumer Driven Health Care - Absolutely, I am an advocate of Consumer Driven Health Care. Read more
5/2/08
Chiropractic Endorsements by MDs - View an ad in a recent USA Today. Read more
5/1/08
Happy Birthday to the ChiroCode Institute Read more
4/30/08
Payers or Purchasers?ﾠ- Who we really are and how we define ourselves is critically important.ﾠRead more
4/29/08
It is a war - By combining EMC with EMR we get more ECD. Read more |
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Can You Believe This?
A new report suggests that being overweight is not as harmful as is commonly believed, and actually confers some surprising benefits.
Being five to ten pounds overweight could protect people from ailments ranging from tuberculosis to Alzheimer's disease, research indicates. Those carrying 15 to 25 extra pounds are better able to recover from adverse conditions such as emphysema, pneumonia, and various injuries and infections, states the report.
Thirty to forty pounds of flab could help fend off breast, kidney, pancreatic, prostate, and colon cancer. And an extra fifty pounds on the scale may improve eyesight, reverse baldness, cure the common cold, and reduce global warming.
In general, the report concludes, overweight people are happier, more successful in business, smarter, and friendlier.
The study was funded by a research grant from McDonald's, Burger King, Jack in the Box, Taco Bell, Domino's Pizza, Starbucks, Haagen Dazs, Sara Lee, and Krispy Kreme.
"I was once a tree surgeon, but I was so clumsy I kept falling out of my patients."
*from Laughter is the Best Medicine, by Allen Unruh, DC
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Florida Court Suspends Allstate in Florida - The District Court of Appeals in Florida upheld the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation's suspension of Allstate from writing insurance in the State of Florida. Click here to read the story, and to get information on purchasing the new Trial Guides From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves-The Dark Side of Insurance.
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Eliminate or Reduce Maintenance Care Billing to Medicare - Effective March 3, 2008, Medicare no longer mandates billing on claim forms for all CMT Maintenance Care services. The ABN form has been revised, and now has a new title, Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage. Your ChiroCode Institute has created an adapted ABN form for Chiropractic Maintenance Care. We have made it easy and convenient for your immediate use (current subscribers only). Click here to download it from the 2008 ChiroCode DeskBook subscriber page.
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The CMS (Medicare) 2008 fees are on their web site. Most Part B contractors/carriers have also posted them. The data source www.cms.hhs.gov/PhysicianFeeSched/PFSCSF/list.asp
The new 2008 fees (until June 30th) include the December Congressional increase of .5% to the dollar conversion factor. However, and unfortunately, the new fee schedule also includes mandated adjustments and caps (by congress) to the national Relative Value Units. When both elements (RVU and dollar conversion factor) are combined, the resulting Allowed amount is less money for most CMT codes.
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ChiroCode Alaska Seminar Cruise Reservations are still possible for the 2008 ChiroCode Seminar Cruise. Join us from June 6-13, 2008 as we cruise roundtrip from Seattle to Alaska. Enjoy a full week of fun and education.
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2008 ChiroCode DeskBook The 2008 ChiroCode DeskBook is now eight books in one! It has been expanded to include new sections for Denial Management and Documentation. Make the ChiroCode DeskBook your "Reimbursement Bible," as tens of thousands of chiropractic offices have done since 1993. Accept no substitutes! Renew annually!
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2008 Code Updates Click to see a preview of the new CPT and ICD-9 codes for 2008
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