PROVIDER ARTICLES
Make Your Business Shine
If your household is anything like mine, April and May are prime months for spring cleaning. Windows are flung open, closets and drawers cleared of clutter, seasonal clothing swapped out, and everything else dusted, swept, vacuumed, and polished to a shine. It feels...
Overwhelmed by Obamacare
President Obama and his administration celebrated the 5th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) in late March. Whether you believe it’s been a good thing or a bad thing, it remains, unless Republicans can overturn it as they continue to threaten, a...
Is Your Practice Still at Risk?
A decade ago, the OIG reported that 94% of chiropractic documentation had serious errors or missing information. Sadly, there’s nothing to indicate in the intervening ten years that this statistic has improved by much. With the OIG and third-party payers ramping up...
Love is in the Air
Whether you celebrated Valentine’s Day or not, it’s almost impossible to avoid the hearts, candy, balloons, and flowers in the supermarket aisles. And they’ll be there a few more weeks at HUGE discounts! (It’s a shame they don’t keep!) Love—or, at the very least, 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.