ChiroCode Alerts
by LaMont Leavitt - CEO, ChiroCode Institute, Inc.
September 13, 2010
- Stay Current and Protect Your Practice
- Tuesday, September 14 (2 pm Eastern): How Your Compliant Practice Can Be More Profitable
- Thursday, September 16 (4 pm Eastern): Audits Are Coming - When it Happens, What Story Do Your Records Tell?
- Thursday, September 23: Simplifying Documentation through Care Plan Compliance
- Place-of-Service Codes Caused $13 Million in Overpayments
- EHR Stimulus Program Can Now Get Underway
- Foot Orthotics
- InstaClaim Software, Version 4.0
Stay Current and Protect Your Practice
If you thought there were a lot of changes in 2010 to the Chiropractic industry, hang
on to your hat for 2011-even more changes are on the horizon for 2011. We at the ChiroCode Institute are committed to providing you the information you need to stay current and protect your practice. Either the 2011 ChiroCode DeskBook with Basic Support or the 2011 ChiroCode DeskBook with Premium Support is your ticket-with all the benefits you need. Here is just some of what is new in the 2011 ChiroCode DeskBook:
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Guidelines: PPACA will become effective on Sept. 23, 2010. Do you understand these new regulations?
- Rules for Injectables: Did you know that some States in 2010 started allowing Chiropractors to do Injectables? Is your state one of them and what is required?
- ChiroCode DeskBook with Premium Support - Did you know that the 2011 DeskBook has links to articles and webinars at ChiroCode.com to go into further depth on dozens of topics?
- Protection from Overpayment Demands: Are you getting overpayment demands from insurance companies? If you haven't yet, you mostly likely will soon.
- And much more!
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Tuesday, September 14 (2 pm Eastern): How Your Compliant Practice Can Be More Profitable
ChiroCode Coding and Reimbursement Webinar
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Time: 2 pm Eastern, 1 pm Central, 12 pm Mountain, 11 am Pacific
Presented by Kevin Sharp, DC
Please note the time change for this webinar (2 pm Eastern instead 4 pm)
Are you spending more time on getting your documentation right (and staying out of trouble!) than on building your practice and making a profit? This webinar is designed to take some of that pressure off and give you some confidence in becoming profitable in your practice.
Dr Kevin Sharp is one of the country's foremost experts in the areas of compliant clinical documentation and insurance industry standards. His experience includes a rich combination of active chiropractic practice, continuing education,.
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Thursday, September 16 (4 pm Eastern): Audits Are Coming - When it Happens, What Story Do Your Records Tell?
ChiroCode Coding and Reimbursement Webinar
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Time: 4 pm Eastern, 3 pm Central, 2 pm Mountain, 1 pm Pacific
Presented by David Klein, CPC, CHC
In this webinar, David Klein, a certified medical coding and compliance consultant, talks about how to keep it simple, clean and understandable for the payer while having your documents demonstrate the patient's favorable response to treatment. Ever wonder if your documentation will measure up in an audit? Dave shows how your daily charting can really tell the story. Learn what Medicare and other carriers are looking for and find out how simple protecting your practice can be.
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Thursday, September 23 (4 pm Eastern): Simplifying Documentation through Care Plan Compliance
ChiroCode Coding and Reimbursement Webinar
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Time: 4 pm Eastern, 3 pm Central, 2 pm Mountain, 1 pm Pacific
Presented by David Klein, CPC, CHC
In this webinar, David Klein, a certified coding and compliance expert, talks about what Medicare, managed care, and private payers are looking for. He focuses on how chiropractors can increase collections while improving compliance through simple, yet extremely effective, documentation. Care Plans (treatment plans) are no longer optional. Every insurance carrier, including Medicare, expects you to create a care plan for every patient. You will learn how to create compliant, quick and simple chiropractic care plans. Learn straightforward steps of how to be Care Plan Compliant.
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Place-of-Service Codes Caused $13 Million in Overpayments
Entering your place-of-service (POS) number on your claim form may seem routine, but a recent OIG audit found that practices are not giving POS numbers the care they deserve. Based on a review of 100 non-facility Part B claims from 2007, the OIG found that only 10 of the sampled claims had the correct POS code assigned to it, resulting in overpayments of over $4,700. Practices should remember to focus just as clearly on POS coding as they do on procedure and diagnosis coding to avoid scrutiny and accusations of miscoding.
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EHR Stimulus Program Can Now Get Underway
On August 30, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) named the first two Certification Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ATCBs): CCHIT & The Drummond Group - which means that the HITECH Act stimulus program can now get underway.
Certification by an ATCB signals to eligible providers (including Chiropractors) that an EHR software solution has the capabilities necessary to support their efforts to meet the goals and objectives of "meaningful use."
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Foot Orthotics
Question: What is the proper CPT code to bill for shoe orthotics where a casting is made of the patient's foot and then an insert is made by the supplier? Also, what is the proper CPT code for billing a shoe lift?
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InstaClaim Software, Version 4.0 - only $139 (save $10)
By InstaCode Institute
This easy-to-use software simplifies the whole process of completing a claim form. You WILL save time. The patient and insurer information is saved for future billings to save time re-entering the same data. Basic features include: simple payment module for patient accounting; send claims electronically to clearinghouses; enter notes on a claim that also appear on reports; create patient mailing labels; simplified backups; and enhanced encryption for tight security.
This NEW version is updated throughout!
Click here to learn more and to purchase. This savings offer expires September 18, 2010
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