Category: Personal Injury

A Company Contacted Me About Personal Injury Case Referrals – Be Cautious of Legal Violations

by Marc Abla, CAE | Jun 13, 2018 | Personal Injury, Work Comp and PI | 0 |

How to decipher if some arrangements could be a legal violation and trying to understand potential legal infractions when looking at referrals.

Medpay Explained (Part 2)

by Carlos Boileve, DC, MCS-P | Mar 28, 2014 | Billing and Collections, Business Forms and Templates, Personal Injury | 0 |

Both the Illinois Chiropractic Society and I have received numerous calls lately regarding the difficulty in receiving payment under the patient’s MedPay portion of their auto insurance policy.

Workers Compensation and Personal Injury: Billing Health Insurance

by Carlos Boileve, DC, MCS-P | Dec 3, 2013 | Billing and Collections, Insurance, Personal Injury, Work Comp and PI | 0 |

any issues have been arising regarding whether to bill health care insurance or Workers’ Compensation/Personal Injury. Most PPO contracts required bill submission to the carrier prior to billing the patient. However, Workers’ Compensation and Personal Injury are the exceptions to this rule.

Network Discounted Personal Injury

by ICS Staff | Mar 11, 2011 | Insurance, Personal Injury | 0 |

The doctor submits claims to the auto liability carrier for the usual charges for service. The doctor also happens to be a network provider for a health insurance network. The auto liability insurer has made an agreement with the health insurance network to “lease” its network and gain access to the discounts agreed to by providers who are members of the network.

The Personal Injury Practice

by Carlos Boileve, DC, MCS-P | Aug 1, 2005 | Personal Injury | 0 |

Those of us that participate in treating these types of injuries such as the litigious whiplash in general, and low-speed impact-related injuries in particular, are aware that we have become part of the medicolegal arena and its experts from fields outside of chiropractic and medicine.