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Identifying Patient-Reported Outcome Measure Documentation in Veterans Health Administration Chiropractic Clinic Notes: Natural Language Processing Analysis

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Chiro.Org Blog: Our study demonstrates the effective use of NLP to accurately identify documented PROM use from VHA chiropractic clinic notes, highlighting the potential for improved data use in quality monitoring of patient care. Overall documented use of PROMs was low and highlights the need for quality improvement.

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Medicare Part B’s advance beneficiary notice

Chiropractic Economics

When documentation is compared to billing, as much as 78% of the time providers were found to be billing for treatment didn’t meet the definition of medical necessity. It all comes down to the documentation. AT vs. GA modifier Documentation for chiropractic spinal adjustments has specific requirements in Medicare Part B.

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Chiropractic maintenance care: How to recognize it, document it and code it

Chiropractic Economics

This article describes what maintenance care is and how it should be documented and coded in your practice. Remember, even if you are not billing insurance, your state licensing board usually has guidelines for minimal documentation requirements within the scope of your practice.

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EHR Systems: How to reduce risk in your practice

Chiropractic Economics

In the modern healthcare environment, electronic health records, or EHR systems, have become the gold standard for documentation. Inaccurate or incomplete documentation can be detrimental during audits or legal disputes, as it fails to meet the rigorous documentation standards expected in modern medicine.

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Chiropractic documentation: Are you the droid they’re looking for?

Chiropractic Economics

The devil is in the details of chiropractic documentation, and it’s painfully obvious when that’s missing. If it wasn’t documented, it didn’t happen Most DCs aren’t deliberately and knowingly breaking the law. They make chiropractic documentation errors not with the cold intent to defraud, but from sheer ignorance or overwhelm.

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How to use Arnica for pain relief in your practice: A complementary option to help your patients

Chiropractic Economics

However, for most causes of pain, there are solutions that can help patients delay or even avoid taking these medications, which have well-documented serious side effects. This knowledge has been largely confirmed by clinical research. 1 Chiropractors can help their patients using these safe alternatives. One such option is Arnica.

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Preparing for HIPAA audits

Chiropractic Economics

Chiropractic clinics must be fully prepared for potential audits initiated by the OCR. Clinics should have patients sign consent forms that explain their rights under HIPAA and give the clinic permission to use and share their information. This documentation should be readily accessible in the event of an audit.

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