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      • TENS - increase your profit margin?
        07/24/08
        Advertisements are being sent to doctors from a California company asking if TENS/EMS units are being prescribed to patients for home use? The company reports they can show how to give patients drugless pain relief and add a new profit center to the doctors office.


        The company says

      • Compliance Training - beware
        07/24/08
        A doctor called and asked: Is it true that providers would get in trouble for not purchasing services from a seminar speaker should federal investigators look at them. The caller added that the speaker told the seminar audience he provides the list of seminar attendees to the FBI and that if one o

      • Compliance Placard
        07/24/08
        I was recently told by a compliance client that they had previously used another consultant for compliance who reported that by placing his (consultant's) compliance certificate on the wall in plain view for those coming into the clinic that if an investigator comes in and sees the certificate

      • Compliance Test, Marketing
        07/24/08
        Yesterday I received via email a compliance test in an advertisement. I took the test, which by the way is an interesting tool to facilitate interest in compliance. Anyway, the test consisted of a number of questions with multiple choice answers that were immediately scored by clicking the submit

      • Advertisments
        07/22/08
        There are many advertisements out there on the web or in periodicals from consultants and other vendors that promise increased revenues and contain testimonials from current clients to attract new clients. These ads no doubt attract attention, not only from potential clients but also from those who

      • Practice Consultants
        07/22/08
        Providers are faced with decisions on if a practice consultant should be used to help build their practice, and, if so, what consultant to use. Good care and judgment must be used by providers before signing on with a consultant that is based on using some due diligence to check the consultants bac

      • Screenings
        07/21/08
        Many providers, per instructions from practice building consultants, engage in screening activity, at times using devices that are not recognized clinically or scientifically, to facilitate the development of new patients that is often reported to be a public service as you may be hurt and not know

      • Specialty Testing
        07/21/08
        Some practice consultants instruct their provider clients to administer and bill Range of Motion and/or Muscle Testing on the next visit following an exam for purposes of increasing revenues. This billing practice is instructed for purposes of increasing revenues by the rendering provider avoiding

      • Quick Codes
        07/21/08
        Quick codes are used by some providers that could result in the billing of servics that were not rendered by the provider. With this billing practice the provider's billing staff enters a single (quick) code, usually based on the patient's type of insurance, into the pratice's billin

      • Web address
        07/21/08
        CCC web-site can now be accessed by typing in cccpfc.com as well as using our old address chiropracticcomplianceconsultants.net

      • One-on-one services
        07/21/08
        Do providers really have to perform one-on-one services in one-on-one settings with patients?
        Some consultants have indicated that providers do not, as long as the provider is able to see or hear the patient when they are performing or receiving the (one-on-one) service. Have you heard this?

      • ROF
        07/21/08
        If the ROF (report of findings) is administered primarily as part of marketing efforts would it be consistent with the laws and rules to bill insurers for the ROF using CPT codes for evaluation & management or other services?

      • Massage Therapy
        07/21/08
        If an insurance company does not cover massage therapy performed by a Licensed or Certified Massage Therapist would it be appropriate to have the therapist perform the service but bill the insurer under a provider type that is covered?

      • Increase practice certainty
        07/21/08
        Practice audits by an experienced health care practice auditor assist health care providers on increasing their practice certainty by detecting violations of administrative, civil and/or criminal law with recommendations for corrective actions.

        What percentage of providers audit their p

      • Decompression
        07/21/08
        Could the push to sell patients cash plans for spinal decompression therapy result in an increased future work load for regulatory boards faced with a flow of complaints from patients for amounts charged?