Documentation & Coding Archives

Medicare Diagnosis Rules

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…

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From History to ICD-10 Code

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…

Reporting Your ICD-10 Codes in Practice

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…

ICD-10 Coding Basics Reference Documents

Download Reference Documents Did you know that there was an official Guideline for ICD-10 coding? After studying this module, you should be familiar with the many resources available and where the rules originate. We talk about these guidelines, but have you ever seen them? Well, here it is! Included here are the documents provided by…

MOI & External Cause Codes

The Mechanism of Injury (MOI) or mechanism of trauma and external cause codes enable providers to paint a more comprehensive picture of what has caused the patient’s condition. These codes are vitally important to use when billing personal injury and worker’s compensation cases. They also can be used to more accurately to describe to the…

Find A Code

It is recommended that your office have references on hand to show where you are pulling your ICD-10 codes from. We are all familiar with the Chiro Code book. Did you know that there is an online resource available? There is, and it is very easy to use! This training video walks you through using…