PROVIDER ARTICLES
Healthcare Costs Matter
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 enables patients to...
Are Audits the New Band Aid for the National Debt?
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 that was released in...
The Opioid Outbreak
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 epidemic is...
Fraud, Waste and Abuse…Oh My!
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 difference between...
Why Risk It?
As a ChiroHealthUSA practice, you already know that your provider status allows you to offer legal discounts to your patients and protects you from the risks associated with dual fee schedules, illegal time-of-service discounts, inducement, anti-kickback accusations,...
More Treat and Less Trick for You and Your Patients
October is more than just the month when you try to figure out if putting out a bowl of bite-sized Snickers is at odds with your Healthy Lifestyle workshops. It’s also the perfect time to close the year out on a high note and take on 2017 planning. If you have...
ChiroHealthUSA Announces Recipient of the Foxworth Family Scholarship
It is hard to believe that a year ago we announced ChiroHealthUSA’s Foxworth Family Scholarship in honor of my parents, Drs. Betty Pace Mathews and Charles Vernon Mathews. The scholarship awards one chiropractic student $10,000 toward their education and makes a...
Membership Does Have Its Privileges
Is your practice missing an opportunity to grow? Many times when we are talking to clinics, we find that they have many more patients who are good candidates for ChiroHealthUSA and are never offered the opportunity to join. I get it. We all get busy and it may seem...
Joined at the HIPAA: HHS and OCR Get Serious with Phase 2
Holy HIPAA, Batman! The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced their “official” launch of Phase 2 of their program this spring, and no one is immune—not even me. I recently received my own pre-audit email. Since it’s only a matter of time before you will likely...
Getting Whole Families Under Care Is Good for Their Bottom Line… and Yours
You became a ChiroHealthUSA provider so that you could offer patients and their families legally discounted, affordable chiropractic care, regardless of their insurance coverage. But how many of your patients are actually bringing the whole family in? Any time is the...
Remove the Revolving Door from Your Practice
You already know that patients in pain want care at any cost. But when that pain eases up, patients may ease on out, even if their treatment plans are not completed. How do you stop that revolving door? In many cases, it often all comes down to dollars and cents....
Is Insurance Keeping Your Patients Out?
Love it or hate it, the Affordable Care Act has changed the healthcare marketplace. For all of your patients who are now facing the high-deductible consequences of the ACA insurance plan they chose, it’s almost always “hate it.” And with good reason. A $1,200...
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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.