Articles for Associations
The Opioid Outbreak
On December 8, 2016, CNN posted an article with information that not many in our profession were surprised to see. The Opioid epidemic in the US is getting worse, not better. In 2015, the number of deaths involving opioids skyrocketed. This growing epidemic is...
Why Risk It?
You’ve heard the question before: “Do you know of any doctors who’ve gotten audited and penalized?” The answer your members are hoping to hear is no, you don’t. Or if you do, it’s very rare. The thing is, you probably don’t hear about it as often as it actually...
Chiropractic Health Month is Just in Time
You know how it is. Mention “health insurance coverage for chiropractic” to your member doctors and they don’t know whether to laugh or cry. We don’t have to tell you that coverage for chiropractic is woefully inadequate. Despite numerous studies that demonstrate the...
ChiroHealthUSA Announces Recipient of the Foxworth Family Scholarship
It is hard to believe that a year ago we announced ChiroHealthUSA’s Foxworth Family Scholarship in honor of my parents, Drs. Betty Pace Mathews and Charles Vernon Mathews. The scholarship awards one chiropractic student $10,000 toward their education and makes a...
Membership Does Have Its Privileges
Your members went to chiropractic college in order to be of service and to make a positive difference in the world. Not surprisingly, they’d also like to make a living doing it. And that’s harder to do than ever before. Payscale, a company that uses both crowdsourcing...
Joined at the HIPAA: HHS and OCR Get Serious with Phase 2
It’s no secret that when it comes to HIPAA compliance, chiropractors are vulnerable. You know it. I know it. Some doctors know it, or at least suspect it. And the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office of...
Getting Whole Families Under Care Is Good for Their Bottom Line… and Your Providers’
It’s summer and the odds are good that your member doctors are seeing a fall-off in business as their patients hit the links, dive into the pool, boat the lake, and head out of town on high-activity summer vacations. What’s a great way to offset this inevitable...
Stop the Patient Revolving Door
As your members are discovering, today’s healthcare environment, with its ridiculously high deductibles and copays, means that many patients may no longer consider chiropractic as essential. Rather, they consider it desirable, but optional. If they can’t find a way to...
Is Insurance Keeping Your Patients Out?
Love it or hate it, the Affordable Care Act has changed the healthcare marketplace. For all of your members whose patients are now facing the high-deductible consequences of the ACA insurance plan they chose, it’s almost always “hate it.” And with good reason. A...
Simplify Compliance for Better Patient Care
As most of you know, chiropractors often start as chiropractic patients. And through that experience of finally finding a treatment that gave them not just relief but that led to recovery, they also found their avocation. Chiropractors become chiropractors because...
All in the Family
If you were to ask your members, they’d probably tell you that they’d love an easy way to bring in more new patients. Yet, many of them are ignoring the “new” patients they have right under their noses; the family members of the patients they’re already treating. DCs...
Don’t Be Out of Luck in the New Year
Many states just finished their annual health insurance enrollment last month, leaving potential patients newly conscious of their copays and horrifyingly aware of their often outrageous deductibles. This time of year, more than ever, your member doctors are getting...
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.