Dramatically Increase Your Collections By Providing Therapeutic Procedures

Dramatically Increase Your Collections By Providing Therapeutic Procedures

Presented by John Schmidt, DC, FIAMA

As you know, insurance companies across the board are cutting back on many services that are provided by health care providers.  For chiropractors, this means that third party payers are refusing to pay for many "passive" therapies especially when provided after two weeks of care.

However, insurance companies are much more willing to pay for Therapeutic Procedures (97110-97546), especially for chronic conditions, because numerous research studies have demonstrated that patients make significant progress when a treatment regiment includes Therapeutic Procedures.

Dr. John Schmidt will navigate you through the "do's and don'ts" of how to choose, document and support medical necessity when providing Therapeutic Procedures.  Dr. Schmidt is not only a subject matter expert in this area but he is also a former licensed insurance adjuster and will be giving you little known "insider secrets" to getting paid and protecting yourself against insurance audits. (Insurance companies will demand huge refunds if you don't do everything just right).

Here is a sample of what you will learn:

- The research that supports medical necessity of providing Therapeutic Procedures
- Which codes get paid the easiest (and which one's get audited the most)
- How to pick the code the accurately describes the service provided
- What services can be provided by unlicensed staff  
- The definition of "one-on-one"
- How to properly calculate the time of service (you are likely cheating yourself out of money)
- The difference between "group" and "individual" therapy
- Billing for multiple services provided at one time
- How to word your documentation to justify medical necessity
- How to audit yourself
- And...any other questions that you may have on this subject


About the Presenter: Dr. John Schmidt is a well sought after national lecturer and consultant on matters related to coding, compliance and documentation. He is a former Licensed Insurance Adjuster and is a Compliance Editor for the 2010 Chirocode DeskBook.  [Click here to read more]