Following is part of a series of posts about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) provided by the Compliancy Group, an ACA corporate partner and ACA’s preferred HIPAA solution. When HIPAA was initially enacted, the use of the...
ACA Practice and Payment
UPDATED: Bipartisan COVID-19 Relief Package Contains Tax Fix, More Resources for Chiropractors
In a COVID-19 relief and federal spending package passed earlier this week by a bipartisan group of U.S. House and Senate lawmakers, several important items that the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) lobby team has been pushing for have been included...
Feds Simplify Forgiveness Process on Small PPP Loans
Recently, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Small Business Administration (SBA) released a simplified forgiveness application for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans under $50,000. The simplified form cuts the application’s size down from five pages to two and removes most of the questions...
ACA Fights to Stop Medicare Reimbursement Cuts in 2021
By Meghan O’Brien Federal government relations is a complex and exciting field, especially for membership associations such as the American Chiropractic Association (ACA). Not only do we represent our dedicated ACA members, but also their patients and, as an extension,...
10 Survival Skills for Recent Chiropractic Graduates
Lessons I Learned from Dr. Bobby Maybee By Noah Volz, DC When I was a chiropractic student, I interviewed 100 chiropractors for my YouTube channel and podcast. This post is about the insights I gained from talking to Bobby Maybee,...
Questions About the Medicare Economic Stimulus and Other Thoughts
By John Falardeau Recently, Medicare providers, including chiropractors, who filed claims in 2019 discovered that funds were distributed automatically to their checking accounts. These are payments, not loans, to healthcare providers and will not need to be repaid. Since the...
Senate Approves Coronavirus Economic Relief Package
Provisions of interest to chiropractors address student loans, small business loans, employee retention, and individual rebates. By Meghan O'Brien March 30 Update: Just before midnight on March 25, the Senate unanimously passed H.R. 748, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security...
New Dry Needling Codes Included in CPT 2020
By Leo Bronston, DC, Chair, Coding Advisory Board, and Kris Anderson, DC, MS, ACA’s alternate representative to the AMA RUC Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee. The American Medical Association (AMA) announced in September the release of the 2020 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set...
Billing for Dry Needling Services (Needle Insertion Without Injection)
By Anthony W. Hamm, DC, MS Dry needling has become an accepted procedure for the management of myofascial trigger points, offering a viable option to pain medications and surgical intervention. The procedure can also be applied to specific muscle motor...
Top 4 Most Commonly Missed Hip Diagnoses
By Tim Bertelsman, DC Problems involving the hip are some of the most frequently undiagnosed or misdiagnosed conditions. When a patient presents with hip pain, chiropractors immediately consider the most probable culprits——like greater throchanteric pain syndrome and osteoarthritis. But what...
