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 Practice and Payment
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...
Social Factors: A Sometimes-overlooked Opportunity
By Anna-Marie Schmidt, MM, DC, and Robert Vining, DC, DHSc The biopsychosocial model is a widely recommended method of clinical evaluation and management.1–5 The model identifies three important areas. “Bio” refers to evaluating/treating biological problems (e.g., pathology), “psych” refers to psychological...
Population Spine Health Management
Enhancing clinical outcomes for spine pain patients while establishing a progressive identity for chiropractic David J. BenEliyahu, DC Introduction The health care landscape in the United States is rapidly evolving with a shift to new payment models such as “pay...
