Healthcare Costs Matter
Share this page: Today’s patients have become health care consumers more than ever before, and the dollars and cents of chiropractic care matter to them. Both patients and the federal government are demanding price transparency in healthcare. Price transparency...
Are Audits the New Band Aid for the National Debt?
Share this page: Each February, the U.S. government releases its financial statements for the previous year. Up until the writing of this article, it never dawned on me that I could actually read and review the financial statements of our government. In the report...
The Opioid Outbreak
Share this page: On December 8, 2016, CNN posted an article with information that not many in our profession were surprised to see. The Opioid epidemic in the US is getting worse, not better. In 2015, the number of deaths involving opioids skyrocketed. This growing...
Fraud, Waste and Abuse…Oh My!
Share this page: In today’s era of regulatory hyper-focus, just about every chiropractor is painfully familiar with the phrase “Fraud, Waste, and Abuse.” In fact, it’s even got its own acronym: FWA. But a surprising number of doctors only have a partial grasp of the...
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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.