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Guiding Patients to Insurance Benefits in Personal Injury Cases

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Personal Injury patients may be entitled to benefits from many sources. Providers can help guide patients to the right resources. ...

Billing Units

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Are you billing units correctly? This article outlines important considerations to ensure that claims are submitted properly. ...

Financial Hardship Policy

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The 2016 Chirocode Deskbook offers advice on waivers! It is improper and illegal to waive co-payments and/or deductibles. For this reason, if you wish to offer some sort of assistance ...

ICD-10 Changes for 2017

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the Proposed Rule regarding the updates to the ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS code sets for Fiscal Year 2017 which begins ...

When can I use “unspecified” codes? What about “other”?

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The official guidelines for ICD-10-CM define the conventions used in the code set. In section 1.A.6, we learn the following about some common abbreviations in the Tabular List: ...