ICD-10 Diagnosis Coding Specificity Valid ICD-10 codes have been required for claims reporting since October 1, 2015. But ICD-10 diagnosis coding to the correct level of specificity continues to be a problem for many in the healthcare industry. While diagnosis code specificity has always been the goal, providers were granted a reprieve to facilitate implementation…

Download Support Tool As we know, the patient holds the key to the information that we need to create the most effective treatment care plan possible. Gathering that information from the patient in the initial intake and consultation with the doctor as the history component can uncover several of the details that are necessary to…

Ever ask for someone to just show you how to do it? This is the training that shows you how to take a patient’s information and turn it into ICD-10 codes. The step-by-step process is laid out in an easy-to-follow model of gathering the patient information and identifying the most correct ICD-10 code to assign,…

For Medicare coverage, there must be a diagnosis of subluxation, along with a secondary neuromusculoskeletal diagnosis in a spinal region. In recent years, Medicare has allowed a wider variety of secondary codes to couple with the segmental dysfunction primary code. This brief training outlines the Medicare guidelines and requirements for diagnosis, both in the medical…

Download Support Tools We have created a visual process of the “doctor thinking” that occurs with each new patient encounter or new episode of care. The doctor is thinking and evaluating the patient from the moment s/he starts looking at the intake information and the individual patient. Chiropractors are excellent at observing and gathering important…

Let’s talk about diagnosis! Chiropractors intuitively have a good sense of what is going on with the patient. The process of bringing that to light happens with what the patient shows and tells them, both verbally and through your clinical findings. Analyzing these pieces of information and attaching a diagnosis is crucial to the process…