Articles for Member Providers
OIG Uses Social Media to Educate Public on Healthcare Fraud
by Ray Foxworth, D.C., FICC, MCS-PPresident & Founder, ChiroHealthUSAOn Wednesday, December 11, 2019, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) hosted its first Facebook Live broadcast as part of the new initiative to educate consumers on how to spot healthcare fraud...
Why Wait? When Procrastination Becomes a Problem in Practice
by Ray Foxworth, D.C., FICC, MCS-PPresident & Founder, ChiroHealthUSA“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln Procrastination can be a joking matter, but it can also do real damage to your practice....
Setting Goals to Guide Your Practice in 2020
by Ray Foxworth, D.C., FICC, MCS-PPresident & Founder, ChiroHealthUSAWith most entrepreneurs and small businesses, it can be tough to plan ahead when everyone involved is scrambling just to get through the day. But as Benjamin Franklin said, “By failing to...
OIG Audit: How Would Your Practice Measure Up?
by Ray Foxworth, D.C., FICC, MCS-PPresident & Founder, ChiroHealthUSAFor years, we have heard that the Office of Inspector General (OIG) is cracking down on healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse. The OIG began issuing reports with concerns about overpayments for...
From “Majoring in Muscles” to the VA, This Year’s Scholarship Recipient
by Ray Foxworth, D.C., FICC, MCS-PPresident & Founder, ChiroHealthUSANotifying the recipients of the ChiroHealthUSA Foxworth Family Scholarship is truly the best part of my job. There are no words to convey the emotion that takes place each year, when Reagan...
Civil Rights Training for Your Practice – Are You Compliant?
by Ray Foxworth, D.C., FICC, MCS-PPresident & Founder, ChiroHealthUSAAs you probably already know, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act contains an anti-discrimination provision. You may not discriminate in healthcare delivery based on a patient’s race, color,...
Four Ways to Promote Your Practice on Social Media
by Ray Foxworth, D.C., FICC, MCS-PPresident & Founder, ChiroHealthUSAIf you think marketing on social media won’t benefit your practice, think again. Marketing has changed dramatically since I started my practice over 34 years ago. Sure, marketing is still about...
Innovations in Employee Training Can Keep Everyone Up to Speed
If your clinic trains employees by flopping down a stack of papers to read, or by forwarding them a list of not-so-updated documents to pore over, you may be thinking, “There’s got to be a better way.” You’d be right. As we prepared to open a second practice last...
That’s Not How It Works – Avoiding Federal Regulations by Not Treating Federally Insured Patients
No matter where I speak, I always have doctors who point out that they are no longer treating Medicare and Medicaid patients in their practices in order to prevent any violations of state and federal anti-kickback rules. The reality is, as doctors across the country...
Attracting the Millennial Market
Born between 1981 and 1996, the tech-savvy Millennial generation of 75 million is about to overtake baby boomers as America’s largest age demographic (Evans, 2018). As business owners, it is important to know what they think when it comes to making health care...
Numbers Don’t Lie…or Do They?
Monitoring your cash flow in practice is a no-brainer. However, when it comes to reviewing your accounts receivable, many providers and staffs don't know the relevant benchmarks to use for determining if those numbers are good, bad, or plain ugly. Often, numbers are...
FREE is a Four-Letter Word
No matter where my conversations start with most doctors, they eventually end up in discussions of declining reimbursements and diminishing revenue in their practices. It is easy for us to quickly put blame on third-party payers, but the reality is that much of the...
Why is the Discount Challenge prize amount $11,181? Because that is the average “per-occurrence” fine for Medicare inducements. That’s not $11,181 per patient, that’s not per provider, that’s PER VISIT. Stinks, doesn’t it? To us, the prize amount is worth the investment if we can help our profession better understand proper discounting.