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Billing for Consultations in Chiropractic
Can chiropractors bill for consultation services and if so, when is it appropriate to bill these codes? Consultation codes are a special category of the Evaluation and Management (E&M) codes. As we already know, Medicare only covers the spinal manipulation codes for chiropractic but now they have also stopped paying for consultation codes for all [...]
ACCLAIM Card: An Individual Chiropractic Discount Program
We get a lot of questions regarding cash discounts from chiropractors looking for an easy and legitimate discount option for their uninsured and underinsured patients. This is one reason that OSCIPA developed the ACCLAIM program several years ago. This blog will help clarify what the ACCLAIM Card Program is and how it can help your office. Many of you and your patients are currently [...]
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Essential Health Benefits: Will Chiropractic Be Included?
OSCIPA as well as 40 other member organizations belong to the Free Market Health Solutions coalition. Their primary goal is to support the development of a private sector-driven Oklahoma Health Insurance Marketplace! Matt Robinson, Vice-President of Government Affairs with The State Chamber is the communication source for this group. The most current brief we received [...]
Active Therapy: Billing for Exercise & Rehab
Recently, a local chiropractic clinic called our office seeking guidance on how to code and bill for certain stretches and exercises. The doctor had been incorporating these into patient treatment plans for years, yet he was not getting reimbursed for these services. They simply didn’t know what codes to use for what therapies. Because we [...]
Legislative Success
OSCIPA MEMBERS: As many of you know the Oklahoma State Legislature enacted a new Workers’ Compensation Code, effective August 26, 2011. In that law 85 O.S. & 329 provided that an independent medical examiner could only be a licensed medical doctor or a licensed doctor of osteopathy. This bill was also signed by Governor Fallin [...]
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Executive Director’s Report
On October 18th OSCIPA had its monthly Board Meeting in Stroud, Oklahoma. In my report to the Board I mentioned several items, all of which were related to continuing to move OSCIPA forward in a positive path. We are all very much aware of what our membership regards as our priorities. This information was the [...]
Multiple Therapy Price Reductions
Medicare has a policy called Multiple Procedure Price Reduction (MPRR). MPPR has been applied to multiple surgical procedures and multiple diagnostic imaging services and is also being applied to therapy services. Of course, therapies are not a covered Medicare benefit when performed by a chiropractor; however we want to make you aware of this policy [...]
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Countdown to ICD-10-CM
The International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) is based on the ICD-10 diagnostic coding system that was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993 to replace ICD-9 that has been around since the 70’s. Currently, the United States is one of the last remaining industrial nations that have not fully [...]
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The Courage Classic
During my 13 years as Executive Director of OSCIPA, I have represented our association in a charity bicycle ride 11 times in Summit County Colorado which takes place each July. I missed one year by opting out of this ride and instead participating in the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Appalachian Mountains near Staunton, VA. And unfortunately, I was [...]
Special Congratulations to Recognized OSCIPA Members!
I would like to congratulate several of our OSCIPA members as they were recognized by both national publications and local publications. The July 15th edition of Dynamic Chiropractic had a front page article titled “Interning with a CTCA Doctor“. Parker University College of Chiropractic and Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) at SW Regional Medical [...]
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