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If your website says $20 for massage and you charge insurance companies $40 then you have a DUAL FEE SCHEDULE! If you tell cash patients electric stimulation is $20 and you charge insurance companies $30 then you have a DUAL FEE SCHEDULE! If anyone who calls your office and asks how much you charge for an adjustment and your staff tells them we charge $40 for an adjustment and you charge insurance companies $55 then you have a DUAL FEE

Please see the attached Disclosure of Financial Interest form. It is only to be used by medical providers who own multiple medical corporations and submit bills for a patient under multiple corporations. Click here to get a word file that you can download for free For instance, if a Chiropractor is an investor in two companies (ie. Chiropractic Inc. and Orthopedic Inc.) and the Chiropractor refers a patient to Orthopedic Inc. for a consultation then this form is absolutely necessary

Link to the Florida Administrative Rule defining “direct supervision.” 64B8-2.001 Definitions. (1) Levels of Supervision: (a)”Direct supervision” shall require the physical presence of the supervising licensee on the premises so that the supervising licensee is reasonably available as needed. When this term is used in probationary terms of a Final Order, it requires that the licensee practice medicine only if the approved supervisor is on the premises. (b)”Indirect supervision” shall require only that the supervising licensee practice at a location

Please see the attached Standard Disclosure and Acknowledgment Form issued by the Office of Insurance Regulation. Click here to download a copy.

Please see the attached Notice of Initiation of Treatment Letter. It should be used for every auto injury patient. It allows you to submit your first batch of bills within 75 days of treatment (instead of the normal 35 days). Click here to view a nice PDF that you can download for free There are several requirements: While I still recommend mailing your initial group of bills to the insurance company weekly or bi-weekly, this form acts as a backup

DID PROGRESSIVE DENY YOUR MANUAL THERAPY (97140) CODES CLAIMING IT WAS “MASSAGE” (97124). If Progressive DENIED your Manual Therapy codes and claimed that it is REALLY Massage Therapy then we can help you get paid! Progressive is wrongfully denying Manual Therapy and claiming it is Massage Therapy. Everyone knows that Manual Therapy and Massage Therapy are closely related. But they are obviously two different types of therapy. If your notes say that you performed manual therapy and you billed for