ChiroCode Alerts - November 10, 2009
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
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- Top Ten ways to Avoid Medicare/OIG Audit
Presented by Mario Fucinari, DC
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- 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 ICD-10-CM/PCS replaces ICD-9-CM, which has outdated and obsolete terminology of some conditions, uses outdated codes (30 years old) that produce inaccurate and limited data, and is inconsistent with current medical practice.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
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- 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."
Click here to read more: http://www.dynamicchiropractic.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=54314
5. 2010 ChiroCode DeskBook Express Renewal – Get Discount Savings Now
You now have three ways to get your book:
- ChiroCode DeskBook with Premium Support-One Payment: Regular $479, now only $429
- ChiroCode DeskBook with Premium Support-Monthly Payments: 1st Payment $129, 11 monthly payments of just $29.95
- ChiroCode DeskBook with Basic Support-One Payment: Regular $129, now only $109
To download your express renewal form go to: http://www.chirocode.com/express2010.pdf
Go to http://www.chirocode.com/ for more information.
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