Chiropractic Health Month is Just in Time
Share this page: October is National Chiropractic Health Month (NCHM), and the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) is sounding the rallying cry to help healthcare consumers “understand that chiropractic services are an important first line of defense against...
ChiroHealthUSA Announces Recipient of the Foxworth Family Scholarship
Share this page: 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...
Membership Does Have Its Privileges
Share this page: Do you or any of your friends belong to Sam’s Club or Costco? If so, you already know how it works. Shoppers become “members” for a low annual fee. In exchange, they receive discounts, often deep ones, on groceries, furniture, electronics, vitamins,...
Joined at the HIPAA: HHS and OCR Get Serious with Phase 2
Got $1.5 million to spare? That’s how much a Massachusetts eye and ear practice just had to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in order to settle potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules after a personal laptop was stolen...
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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.