The Cures Act: Sharing Records Is a Two-Way Street
by Marc Abla, CAE • CEO at Illinois Chiropractic Society • “Hiding within those mounds of data is knowledge that could change the life of a patient, or change the world.” – Atul Butte, Stanford Medicine (July 2012). The age of big data is already here, and the...
Giving Patients the Visual Feedback They Need
by Miles Bodzin, D.C. • CEO of Cash Practice Systems • With the Olympics just passing, I have been thinking a lot about measuring performance. Of course, chances are, the patients you are seeing are probably not Olympic athletes....
ICD-10 Guidelines and Code Changes Take Effect October 1, 2021
by Mario Fucinari • DC, DAPMP, CPCO • The World Health Organization and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have released the diagnosis code updates for the fiscal year 2022. The changes in codes and guidelines take effect...
The Standard of Care is the Backbone of Risk Management
by Mario Fucinari • DC, DAPMP, CPCO • Owning and operating a practice is difficult in today’s world. Health care risk management ensures that the organization achieves its mission to serve the public and improve health while...
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Why is the Discount Challenge prize amount $15,024? Because that is the average “per-occurrence” fine for Medicare inducements. That’s not $15,024 per patient, that’s not per provider, that’s PER VISIT. Stinks, doesn’t it? To us, the prize amount is worth the investment if we can help our profession better understand proper discounting.