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Remember the Gift of Your Practice Team

This holiday season make it a point to give your practice team members something they will treasure – your sincere appreciation. There are many ways to make your team members feel that their contributions are valued and the holidays provide an excellent opportunity to do so. Here are a few suggestions. Consider holding your holiday party in November, rather than December. It is less likely to conflict with other parties and team members are less hassled with the holiday rush. If you plan to give year-end bonuses, do so before the holiday season when the extra funds will come in handy.

Make this Your Best Holiday Season Ever

It’s the holiday season and the stores are buzzing with shopping activity. The sales currently taking place in stores have taken weeks and sometimes months to plan. Speaking of planning, it’s important to think several weeks (or months) ahead if you want a steady and predictable stream of patients coming to your practice. That means, if you haven’t planned your holiday marketing program, your efforts will need to be a lot more intense. The new rules for the changed economy say no practice owner should unload a huge chunk of their practice building budget into a holiday season marketing program. So which low-cost marketing strategies yield the best results? In the upcoming several weeks we’ll be providing budget-friendly and creative ways to market your chiropractic practice during the holiday season.

Morning Motivation: Mentoring

“The more I practice, the luckier I get.”

A successful sportsman, Alistair adds that many people have been asked about the role of luck in their success. As Ben Hogan, one of the best golfers, said, “The more I practice, the luckier I get.” More recently, tennis star Serena Williams said, “Luck has nothing to do with it because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.”

Compliance Programs can INCREASE Profitability.

OIG compliance is primarily about ensuring your practice does not do something wrong and that you are billing, coding, and collecting in an ethical and true manner. It primarily benefits insurance companies by ensuring no waste, fraud, or abuse. However, in writing the compliance program, I noticed that the checks and balances procedures I was doing in my practice to monitor my billing department fulfilled most of the OIG requirements.

Decoding HIPAA: How to be compliant without losing your mind.

1- HIPAA Privacy – provides individuals with a legal & enforceable right to see and receive copies of PHI

Compliance Programs can INCREASE Profitability. It’s true!!

It is everyone’s favorite time of year again when we think about our compliance program. In the past, compliance activities have been looked at as tasks that the government has assigned to make our lives more difficult. If you read the federal register, it says that they require compliance activities to not only avoid fraud, waste, and abuse but also to make healthcare offices run smoothly and more profitable.

2023 is THE year to get compliant.

It is that time of year again when people have a goal to add compliance to their never-ending list. 2023 is THE year to get compliant. I see all the emails that come through with HIPAA violations and who did what and what they were fined for.

Reminders: You can do anything, but not everything at the same time.

You don’t have to figure everything out. Restart as many times as needed. Your inner peace is too expensive to be sacrificed. Do more of what makes you forget about time.