CMS Clarifies Medical Necessity Requirements
Share this page: On December 23, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new instructional video describing their policies and procedures for establishing medical necessity of chiropractic care.1 The video was released on the heels of a...
April 2016 – Mark Mehaffey
Mark Mehaffey, DC Back Pain Institute Of West Texas Odessa, Texas FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedIn Spotlight Home Spotlight Meet Mark Mehaffey, DC. Mark Mehaffey, DC graduated from Texas Chiropractic College and has practiced in the Permian Basin area for over 20...
Is Insurance Keeping Your Patients Out?
Share this page: 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....
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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.