Monday, September 21, 2009

17 Electronic Medical Billing Software Red Flags for Chiropractic Office Audit

Dr. Ben Lerner, founder of Teach The World About Chiropractic and author of "One Minute Wellness," discovered a convenient way to thousands of chiropractors about coding compliance and audit risk reduction educate. "Compliance maintenance requires special skills and military discipline," says Dr. Lerner. "Webinars for an examination of risk management education is ideal, because they deliver urgently needed education but require minimal investment in terms of timeand costs. "

After've Improper Medicare FFS Payment Report (2003), "chiropractor provider compliance with the highest error rate in Medicare, says Login incorrect 30.6% of the time."

Increasingly after the payment of insurance audits and mounting severity of penalties ranging from suspended license heavy fines, underscore the need for effective and affordable education about compliant office management and audit risks.

"Offers no insuranceProtection against potentially enormous penalties in case of post-payment audit, "said Jeff Randolph, Esq., The legal adviser of the Association of New Jersey Chiropractors and a webinar Author." The severity of the sanctions by the manufacturer after payment verification escalated in the last two to three years, sentenced by a relatively non-adversarial audits and occasional return of payments to very large fines, suspension or loss of license and. "

What is a Webinar on Billing Audit Risk?

When a chiropractic practice has investigated a 30.6% chance, and no insurance offers protection against audit risk, then the only sensible way is to protect the practice is developing an in-house audit defense strategy.

Doctors and practice managers looking for cost-effective and productive way to learn better ways to manage their practice and revenue cycle. The main advantage of the webinar is for convenience - there is no travel required and important informationDelivered in ninety minute sessions, which make it easy, even the busiest doctors to quickly obtain vital information on topics such as successful implementation of EMR systems to the understanding and the benefits and challenges of outsourced billing services, risk management post-payment audits, and much more.

Webinars use the Internet to bring together remote participants during the display of the same subject or computer application. An audit risk webinar chiropractors to teachBuilding a more effective and efficient internal audit defense strategy and offers three-fold benefit for the participants:


Lower risk assessment, as of SOAP note compliance and audit exposure monitoring


Increased revenue through improved billing


Improved efficiency of patient flow management


Expert Content

A Chiropractic Audit webinar consists of three parts:

Coding:

CPT (Current Procedure Terminology) codes

E & M codes

Arrangements

ICD-9 Coding




Medical necessity documentation:

SOAP Notes

Treatment Plan



Audit Management:

Seventeen Audit Red Flags

Audit monitoring of exposure

What to do if audited?