by LaMont J. Leavitt, President/CEO
of ChiroCode Institute
1. Audit
Protect Yourself - What Are the Auditors Watching For on Your Claims?
2. ChiroCode Webinar Archive – Now Available
3. ICD-10 Is Coming – The ChiroCode Institute is Ready
4. How Chiropractic Helps the Insurance Industry
5. 2010 ChiroCode DeskBook Express Renewal – Get Discount Savings Now
1. Audit Protect Yourself - What Are the Auditors
Watching For on Your Claims?
Presented by Dr. David Pinkus Webinar Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009****POSTPONED****
Webinar Time: 4 pm Eastern, 3 pm Central, 2 pm Mountain, 1 pm Pacific
POSTPONED...NEW DATE WILL BE POSTED SOON! Dr. David Pinkus is the president of
DBP Audit Consulting and is a Certified Billing and Coding Specialist. He
will teach you the standards of compliancy that you need to know to improve
your chances of avoiding an audit and having to pay back money to the insurance
company by recognizing the red flags along with what is the difference between
Fraud and Abuse. Dr. Pinkus has trained and helped defend hundreds of doctors
throughout the U.S. over the last 23 years.
2. ChiroCode
Webinar Archive – Now Available
ChiroCode Webinars are now available for 24/7 viewing.
ChiroCode
Premium Support Subscribers may view ALL past
webinars.
ChiroCode Basic Support Subscribers may view the three most recent webinars. These
currently include:
How
to Win a Low Speed Impact Automobile Accident Legal Case
Presented by Alan M. Immerman, DC
Top Ten ways to Avoid Medicare/OIG Audit
Presented by Mario Fucinari, DC
Medicare Appeals, Making the System Work for You
Presented by Dr. Ron Short
3. ICD-10 Is Coming – The ChiroCode
Institute is Ready
The new ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes are mandated for use beginning Oct. 1. 2013.
Here are answers to come common questions:
What
is it? ICD-10-CM/PCS replaces
ICD-9-CM, which has outdated and obsolete terminology of some
conditions, uses outdated codes (30 years old) that produce
inaccurate and limited data, and is inconsistent with current medical
practice. ICD-10-CM is the diagnostic coding system, and ICD-10-PCS is the
procedural coding system
How
is ICD-10 different?:
ICD-10-CM has 7 character codes, each beginning with a
alphanumeric character. ICD-9-CM codes are only 3-5 characters long.
ICD-10-CM set allows more than 155,000 codes, compared
to 17,000 codes available in ICD-9.
ICD-10 has almost twice as many categories as ICD-9
What are the benefits of adopting ICD-10-CM? There are many benefits, including:
Incorporates much greater specificity and clinical
information
Includes updated medical terminology and
classification of diseases
Provides better data
To
help you become familiar with the new codes, and to help you start planning for
how these changes will affect your office, the 2010 ChiroCode DeskBook
will have two new online ICD-10 appendices: 1) a Code Map Appendix, with a map
from every ICD-9 code in the ChiroCode DeskBook to ICD-10 equivalent codes. 2)
An ICD-10 Numeric Listing Appendix, with full descriptions and notes for every
ICD-10 code listed in the Code Map Appendix.
4. How Chiropractic Helps the
Insurance Industry
From Dynamic Chiropractic
Insurance companies and others hesitant to expand coverage of chiropractic
care should review a copy of a report commissioned by the Foundation for
Chiropractic Progress and prepared by Mercer Health and Benefits, a San
Francisco-based human resources and financial advisor. The report, "Do
Chiropractic Physician Services for Treatment of Low Back and Neck Pain Improve
the Value of Health Benefit Plans?" concludes that chiropractic care
"is likely to achieve equal or better health outcomes at a cost that compares
very favorably to most therapies that are routinely covered in U.S. health
benefit plans" and that covering chiropractic services for neck and low
back pain "will likely increase value-for-dollar by improving clinical
outcomes and either reducing total spending (neck pain) or increasing total
spending (low back pain) by a smaller percentage than clinical outcomes
improve."
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