As a doctor, it is your responsibility to design a treatment plan for each patient that considers the patient’s current condition and complaints, the exam findings, the diagnosis, and any complicating factors.

It is a widely accepted fact that most conditions that respond favorably to chiropractic care might get better results in less time when therapeutic modalities and procedures are utilized in the treatment plan. Patients can realize improved outcomes when a provider incorporates stretching, strengthening, and reconditioning the entire body region to help facilitate and support the spinal adjustments.

In an ideal world, every dollar produced in your practice would be collected at the time of service and there would be no need to track it down later. However, we know that to not be the case and that makes exceptional billing a high priority for most providers.

Often, providers forget that the ROV within “episodic care” must have a minimum set of targeted “updated” (comparative) subjective data components from the previous or initial visit, when applicable, of this episode.

The Office of Inspector General continues to find a high error rate in documentation and coding for DCs. Their reports reflect that DCs have higher error rates out of all Part B Medicare Providers.