Chiropractic is one of the fastest growing professions in the U.S., and with the growing need for female DCs, there are ways we can prepare within our profession. This article will explore ideas about ways we can encourage female DCs currently in our profession, as well as encourage students joining the field of chiropractic.
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On November 2nd, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule with comment for the second year of the Quality Payment Program (calendar year 2018), as required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), as well as an interim final rule with comment.
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Dr. Vijay Patel, DC, DACNB, the current president of the Illinois Chiropractic Society (ICS), emphasizes the significance of unity within the chiropractic profession and the support of the Chiropractic Future Strategic Plan and the ICS.
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In a written opinion just released, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that attorneys who recover money for injured parties may not deduct legal fees from health care providers.
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The Illinois Chiropractic Society diligently watches and responds to governmental rule change proposals. Over the last year, CMS has issued proposed rules for the CMS Shared Savings/Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Program, and the ICS has responded, along with many of our state and national association brethren.
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The pace at which information is being published is almost too intense to conceive. Critical appraisal of the literature is a skill unto itself. It has been estimated that if an individual attempted to keep up with all the literature related to their own discipline by reading one article per day, by the end of one year he/she would be 99 years behind. The AHCPR guidelines; which were the first governmentally sanctioned review leading to the recognition of the value of high velocity, low amplitude procedures for acute, adult low back pain; located over 10,317 articles. When culled to the relevant ones for the task only 3,918 were left. So how do you select relevant literature for inclusion in a review process like that being attempted by CCGPP for Best Practices?
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Throughout history, there has been a debate of where the seat of intelligence and cognition lives, with Hippocratic doctors arguing in favor of the brain, while Aristotle argued in favor of the heart as the dominant organ for sensation, cognition, and movement. Over time, the brain’s dominant role in cognition has become more apparent, and this has been depicted in the history of the arts.
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The financial stability of any practice starts with the UCR (usual and customary) fee schedule. All too often, we neglect to review and update our fees each year. Problems arise when our expenses go up each year due to inflation and our fees stay the same.
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