The Seminar Covers a Broad Spectrum of Topics:
The Most Comprehensive Seminar Available on Coding, Compliance and Documentation!

Over the past few years, state and federal laws have changed the way health care providers, including chiropractors, do business. Today, doctors and their staff must possess an extremely high level of knowledge for coding, compliance and documentation of medically necessary treatment.

  • The "7 Most Common Billing Mistakes" that Chiropractors Make In Practice.
  • Evaluation & Management Codes: Why Virtually EVERYONE Is Billing Them...WRONG!
  • Therapeutic Procedure Codes: The AMA's Definition of the Terms "Supervision", "One-On-One Contact" and "Therapist!"
  • How To Document Medical Necessity.
  • The 4 Risk Areas of Fraud Cited By The Federal Government.
  • How to Complete the NEW 1500-Claim Form!
  • Civil False Claims Act (FCA): How Someone Can 'Frame' You for Fraud and collect $1 Million Dollars For Doing It!!!.
  • How to Code And Prescribe Care Plans For Spinal Decompression.
  • DHHS-OIG's 7-Step Compliance Program: What It Is... Why You Need To Implement One... And How To Do It In Under An Hour!
  • HIPAA: MYTH vs. REALITY - What You Need to Know to Comply.
  • How You Can Be Sentenced From 10 Years... To LIFE... In Prison For Just 1 Count of Health Care Fraud!
  • The MD/DC Practice: The ONLY Way To Appropriately Diagnose, Prescribe Treatment and Document Services.
  • MEDICARE: The 10 Biggest Mistakes That Chiropractors Make When Documenting Medicare Services.
    Also, The Exact History, Exam And SOAP Note Required.

CPT Coding

The Hidden Changes in the CPT Code Book

  • The Most Important Change and The ONEPlace You'd Never Think to Look!
  • Why You Have to Use The Exact Code When Providing Services;
    Otherwise You Are Committing Fraud!

How to Properly Use and Audit the Evaluation & Management Codes

  • How and Why Most Doctors Improperly "Upcode" E&M Service.
  • A Simple Form That Will Audit E&M Codes in Seconds!
  • 'Documentation Guidelines': The KEY for properly coding E&M Services
  • Why and How You Must Document Your E/M Services!

 Outcomes Assessment

Outcomes Assessment Overview

  • Why Outcomes? Why Now?
  • Civil False Claims Act, HIPAA and Health Care Fraud
  • Attributes to Look for in Outcome Measures
  • Subjective vs. Objective Questionnaires
  • Classification of Outcome Assessments

Subjective Outcome Assessment Tools

  • General Health Questionnaires
  • Assessments of Pain
  • Condition-specific Outcomes
  • Psychosocial Questionnaires
  • Subjective Questionnaires and E&M Code
  • Patient Satisfaction Questionnaires
  • Predicting Outcomes in Low Back Pain
  • Strength and Endurance Testing
  • Spinal Orthopedic and Neurological Testing
  • Spinal Range of Motion Testing
  • Surface EMG, Inclinometers, and Dynamometers
  • Spinal Adjusting Techniques
  • Outcome Measures for the Upper/Lower Extremities
  • Functional Capacity Exams

Application of Outcomes Assessment in Clinical Practice

  • Case Management in an Evidence-based Practice
  • Integrating Outcomes Assessment into Clinical Documentation
  • Establishing an "Outcomes-based Practice"
  • Using Outcome Assessments in Risk Management
  • Current Published Research Regarding Outcomes Assessment Tools

Practical Reality; An Outcome-based Practice

  • Putting Outcomes-based Management into Practice
  • Clinical Outcome Databases and Software Programs
  • Looking to the Future: Using Outcomes Management to Enhance your Practice
  • Documenting Medical Necessity to Validate Treatment

 Documentation

Documentation & Records

  • How to create a computer SOAP note in under a minute
  • How to Properly Document Exams and Test Results to Avoid Allegations of Fraud.
  • How to Keep Adequate Notes
  • How Long Do I Keep Records?
  • How to Justify Treatment
  • What Review Doctors Look for to Cut Your Care
  • Why notes need to be legible and counter-signed

 Compliance

HIPAA

  • What is HIPAA? Am I a Covered Entity? Can I be excluded from HIPAA?
  • What Written Guidelines Should I Have In Place?
  • MYTH vs. REALITY
  • How to be Compliant in Minutes

The Risk Management Benefits of Having a Compliance Program

  • "The 10 Most Common Mistakes Chiropractors Make...
  • Erroneous vs. Fraudulent Claims
  • The 7 Essential Elements of An Effective Compliance Program
  • How to Easily Create a Compliance Program
  • The 4 Fraud and Abuse Areas Cited by the OIG
  • Why the Government Collected $1.7 Billion in Health Care Fraud in 2003.
  • MD/DC Clinics are LEGAL- A Federal Prosecutor Told Me So Himself!
    Find out the ONE THING that Makes Them ILLEGAL!

4-Hours Technique
(California Seminars Only!)

Validating Adjusting Technique's Utilzing Objective Outcome Assessments.

  • Pre-Adjustment Assessment
  • Occipital and Upper Cervical Techniques
  • Lower Cervical Techniques
  • Upper Thoracic Adjustments
  • Lower Thoracic Adjustments
  • Anterior Thoracic and Lumbar Adjustments
  • Lumbar Spine Techniques
  • Pelvis/SI Joint
  • Upper & Lower Extremities
  • The Value of Surface EMG: Is It Spasm or Contacture?
  • Dynamic EMG: Monitor Patient Soft Tissue Progress!

 
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