CMS: Government Shutdown Won’t Jeopardize ICD-10 Transition While officials from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could not say definitively on a media call Thursday what the status of the agency’s new ICD-10 Coordination Center and its ombudsman would be in the event of a government shutdown on Oct. 1, they did maintain that the transition itself will go […]

Athletic TIPS™ Launches! The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP) proudly announces that Athletic TIPS™ (Towards Injury Prevention in Sports), a national, not-for-profit organization that drives expanded awareness and education around the role of multi-disciplinary care in the recognition, management and prevention of sports-related injuries, has launched its website at www.TIPS4Sports.org. The organization will begin rolling out […]

Urgent ICD-10 Reminder and Update for Personal Injury and Work Comp Personal Injury payers are not governed by HIPAA, they do get to elect on an individual basis whether or not to transition to ICD-10 diagnosis as of 10/01/2015. Providers are urged to contact those Work Comp and PI payers as soon as possible so as […]

ACA Statement on Subluxation ICD-10 Coding The World Health Organization, which developed ICD-10, describes subluxation as, “a lesion or dysfunction in a joint or motion segment in which alignment, movement integrity and or physiological function are altered, although contact between joint surfaces remains intact. It is essentially a functional entity which may influence biomechanical and […]

American Chiropractic Association to Host Twitter Chat on Prescription Painkiller Epidemic #PainFreeNation scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 2 p.m. ET Arlington, Va. – The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) is hosting its first Twitter chat focused on addressing the overuse and abuse of opioid painkillers in the United States on Tuesday, Sept. 29, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET using […]

On ICD-10 Release Date, CMS Says Four States Exempt On Oct. 1, the ICD-10 release date, four states’ Medicaid programs will not be converting to ICD-10 codes, according to CMS. Everyone else, however, will. California, Maryland, Montana and Louisiana “are the only states that have programmed the backwards crosswalk into their claims processing systems for their […]

Foundation for Chiropractic Progress Aligns with National Fibromyalgia & Chronic Pain Association, Participates at Inaugural Conference:  Treating and Preventing Chronic Pain Treating and Preventing (TAP) Chronic Pain Conference, Arlington, Virginia, October 8-10, 2015 CARMICHAEL, Calif. – September 03, 2015 – The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the value of chiropractic care, is pleased […]

Florida Doctors: TENS units-Do I need a license? Many doctors have asked me if they need a special license to bill DME units like a TENS unit.  The short answer is– YES, you do need a license.  Most insurance companies are starting to catch on to this special license and they are denying DME (Durable […]