Category: Patient Communication

“BIPA” – The Illinois Biometric Privacy Act in the Physician Office

by Adrienne Hersh, JD, ICS Legal Counsel | Oct 13, 2021 | Business Forms and Templates, Compliance, Documentation, Featured, HIPAA, ICS Message, Legal, Patient Communication, Practice Management, zall | 0 |

The Illinois Biometric Privacy Act creates standards for how businesses must handle consumers biometric information. Learn more about how it affects your practice today!

Let Your Medicare Patients Help You, So You Can Help Them!

by ICS Staff | Aug 25, 2021 | ICS Message, Legislative, Medicare and Medicaid, Patient Communication, Practice Management, Social Media, zall | 0 |

Right now, Medicare only reimburses chiropractic physicians for spinal manipulation. Do your Medicare patients want your services covered by Medicare? If so, involve them in our efforts to advance full Medicare coverage for services provided by chiropractic physicians!

Resolving the Confusion of the Cures Act

by Marc Abla, CAE | Mar 31, 2021 | Compliance, Cures Act, Documentation, Electronic Health Records, HIPAA, ICS Message, Patient Communication, Practice Management, zall | 0 |

We realized that there was an information gap in regard to the Cures Act and chiropractic. This week we go over some of the conflicting information and cover some of the resources that are available to you. Watch the video to learn more!

Information Blocking and the Patient’s Records

by ICS Staff | Mar 16, 2021 | Cures Act, Documentation, Electronic Health Records, Patient Communication, Practice Management, zall | 0 |

As we have been outlining for chiropractic physicians over the last few months, the 21st Century CURES Act is federal law that is designed to promote “innovation in the health care technology ecosystem to deliver better information, more conveniently, to patients and clinicians. It also promotes transparency, using modern computers, smartphones, and software to provide opportunities for the American public to regain visibility in the services, quality, and costs of health care.”

Increased Patient Access to Health Records – the Cures Act

by ICS Staff | Feb 2, 2021 | Cures Act, Documentation, Electronic Health Records, ICS Message, Patient Communication, Practice Management, zall | 0 |

The 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act), signed into law in 2016, was designed to help bring health care innovations to patients to provide more patient control in a value-based health system.[i] Recognizing that patient access and ease of transfer of health records are key, the law includes two provisions that directly affect health care offices