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Chiropractic maintenance care: How to recognize it, document it and code it

Chiropractic Economics

This article describes what maintenance care is and how it should be documented and coded in your practice. Remember, even if you are not billing insurance, your state licensing board usually has guidelines for minimal documentation requirements within the scope of your practice.

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Documentation and coding of kinetic chain disruptions

Chiropractic Economics

The conversion of a global problem into separate diagnosis codes (in this example, coding of kinetic chain disruptions) proves difficult when reporting holistic conditions to an insurance carrier that views the world differently than we do. 1 Our medical decision-making incorporates addressing the cause of the problem from the ground up.

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Chiropractic documentation: Are you the droid they’re looking for?

Chiropractic Economics

The devil is in the details of chiropractic documentation, and it’s painfully obvious when that’s missing. If it wasn’t documented, it didn’t happen Most DCs aren’t deliberately and knowingly breaking the law. They make chiropractic documentation errors not with the cold intent to defraud, but from sheer ignorance or overwhelm.

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Introducing Flexnote Version 10: Enhanced Features for Seamless Documentation

Genesis

We are thrilled to announce the release of Flexnote Version 10, packed with more features designed to streamline your workflow and enhance your documentation experience. Here’s a closer look at what’s new: Flexnote Version 10 is all about making your practice more efficient and your documentation more accurate.

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Medicare Part B’s advance beneficiary notice

Chiropractic Economics

When documentation is compared to billing, as much as 78% of the time providers were found to be billing for treatment didn’t meet the definition of medical necessity. It all comes down to the documentation. AT vs. GA modifier Documentation for chiropractic spinal adjustments has specific requirements in Medicare Part B.

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The 2025 ICD-10 updates: What DCs need to know

Chiropractic Economics

If you are importing the diagnosis list as an EHR feature, remember that we did not provide the full update list above. Unspecified codes are likely to result in rejections, denials or requests for additional documentation and should be avoided where possible. Old claims For any dates of service before Oct. 1 deadline.

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Stop outsourcing with new technology

Chiropractic Economics

Now, it’s possible to obtain a correct diagnosis, discover exact pain points and provide the appropriate treatment for these “previously hidden” injuries. Medical professionals can use this data to provide better treatment, which varies according to the diagnosis. “A The AMA guidelines indicate a translation cannot be more than 3.5

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