NY Required 12 Hour

Description

Chiropractic Billing 101 – Credit Hours: 1DocumentationRisk Management

Chiropractic Billing 101 will give the Chiropractor and staff a complete billing overview in 7 easy steps. This course will give you the understandin of billing terminology, how the Chiropractic revenue cycle works, how to collect patient data and verify benefits, and how to submit and track claims as well as how to handle rejected claims.  Most importantly, you will learn the most efficient way to follow up with claims and deal with denials quickly. This is a must for any Chiropractic office that deals with insurance claims.

Chiropractic SOAP Notes – Credit Hours: 1DocumentationRisk Management

Dr. Marty Kotlar renowned “compliant guy” authors and narrates this 1 hour documentation seminar that will instruct you on how to write a compliant Chiropractic SOAP note. Topics include…

• How to prove medical necessity in your SOAP notes
• Set the tone with compliant exams and re-exams
• Detailed descriptions for codes 97110, 97112, 97140 and 97530
• Outcome assessments made simple
• Sample SOAP notes provided

Poor documentation leads to many problems in practice. This course will help to bulletproof your documentation!

Documentation and Coding for Active Care – Credit Hours: 1DocumentationRisk Management

Active care is an integral component of current paradigm in Chiropractic. This course will cover documentation and coding as it relates to active care. The appropriate use of timed and untimed codes,  modifiers  and daily SOAP note documentation will be explained to substantiate the services rendered and bullet proof your records.  Topics include:

Active care vs. passive care and the appropriate coding  of both.

Emphasis of when to use a timed vs.  untimed code and the specifics of using the various passive and active codes.

Documentation of active care and case reviews for coding.

This seminar will help to bullet-proof your documentation on active care!

Ethics in Chiropractic – Credit Hours: 2Risk Management

Ethics in Chiropractic reviews the most up-to-date code of professional ethics in the Chiropractic profession and provides Chiropractors with the knowledge of the Chiropractic Code of Ethics. This 2 hour course will cover the following:

• What is Ethics and why is it important in the healthcare setting?
• Ethics in Chiropractic: recent statistics of disciplinary actions against Chiropractors.
• Chiropractic internal workshops on improving ethics in the Chiropractic profession.
• What defines “unethical conduct”?
• The American Chiropractic Association mission to elevate healthcare through a “Code of Ethics”.
• The 15 ACA Code of Ethics defined.
• The International Chiropractic Association’s Code of Professional Ethics
• Duties, obligations, and responsibilities of the Doctor of Chiropractic to their patients, to the public, and to the profession.
• Chiropractic Informed Consent

This course is approved to satisfy risk management requirements for each state.

How to Document and Become Medicare DME Certified – Credit Hours: 1Documentation

This seminar will explain the DME process for the Chiropractor.  Topics include:

• Establishing medical necessity for lumbar braces, knee braces and home traction
• DME billing and coding medical policies
• The DME prescribing and ordering process
• Learn the most appropriate DME modifiers
• The competitive bidding process
• How to become a certified orthotic fitter
• Off-the-shelf vs. custom-fit lumbar braces
• Medicare DME coverage articles
• Stark & Anti-kickback

Proving medical necessity for durable medical equipment for the Chiropractic patient is getting more and more difficult. This seminar will bulletproof your documentation to make the process easier.

How to Manage Managed Care – Credit Hours: 2DocumentationRisk Management

How to Manage Managed Care, ASH, Optum will give you the tools to understand how to maneuver the Medical Necessity Review process. You will learn topics such as the following:

• What is the standard Medical Necessity Review (MNR) prcess?
• How to complete medical necessity review forms
• Pros and cons of in-network vs. out-of-network
• How to compliantly transition active care patients to wellness/cash patients
• How to prove medical necessity beyond 5 visits
• Common short- and long-term ICD-10 codes
• Co-morbidities and complicating factors

Give yourself the know-how to make your documentation bulletproof to medical necessity reviews!

ICD-10 and Chiropractic – Credit Hours: 1Documentation

Dr. Marty Kotlar, president of Target Coding and certified in CPT Coding, a Certified Professional Compliance Officer and a member of the American Chiropractic Association and American Academy of Professional Coders, instructs you on the latest additions, changes and deletions of the diagnositic ICD-10 codes for Chiropractors.  Topics include:

• The most common chiropractic ICD-10 codes
• Disc disorders vs. disc displacements
• Sprains, strains & laterality
• Initial & subsequent encounters
• Complicating factors & co-morbidity ICD-10s
• Medicare & ICD-10
• ICD-10 clinical examples

Don’t get your claims denied because you are not using the correct ICD-10 codes. This seminar will help you to avoid that!

Sexual Boundaries – Credit Hours: 2Risk Management

The purpose of this course is to aid the Chiropractic Profession by providing Chiropractors with the knowledge of ethics and sexual boundaries with their patients and staff. Case studies and laws relating to understanding and avoiding ethical and sexual boundaries issues in the Chiropractic setting will be used. The following topics will be covered:

Defining Professional Boundaries

· The Basis for the Doctor / Patient Relationship

· Transference / Counter-transference

· Terminology Associated with Sexual Misconduct

· How to Reduce Exposure

· Boundary Violation vs. Boundary Crossing

· Preparing for High Risk Situations

· Case studies

· Issue Warning Signs

· Guidelines for Prevention

Bullet-proof your practice with these risk management strategies!

The 1500 Insurance Claim Forms, Common Denials, and ICD-10 Pointing – Credit Hours: 1DocumentationRisk Management

This seminar takes a step by step in depth look at the 1500 Insurance Claim Form including the following topics:

• A review of all 31 boxes of the 1500 form
• How to point box 21 to 24E
• How to scrutinize the most common denials
• Modifiers XS, 59, GP and 25
• CCI edit denials for bundled/mutually exclusive/incidental services
• 97140 & 99213 bundling with 98941
• How to prove medical necessity
• Deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance

Mistakes in filling out this form costs the Chiropractic physician time and money. This seminar will help to make you bulletproof!