Share this page: “Don’t Call Me… I’ll Call You,” are the famous last words of a patient who has just completed their last covered visit in your office. Often, cost-conscious patients are focused on their out-of-pocket expenses and not the value of the care they...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Flash quiz: Would you tell a patient to continue wearing 5-inch stiletto heels because she hasn’t turned an ankle so far? Or how about this: You’ve probably never suffered severe electric shock, so maybe you’d feel okay about fiddling around inside the outlets with a...
Compliance is a focus of my clinic management and team. There has been an ever-present worry that trying to make care affordable will violate insurer contractual agreements. Too many of my colleagues have the same worries, but do not take the steps of protection that CHUSA offers. Instead, they worry at night about whether they will be the focus of recoupment. I sleep without regrets knowing that my inclusion of CHUSA into my patient services helps me be compliant and still offer the great care my patients have come to to rely on without breaking their piggybanks to get it.
