Why you should scan every patient’s feet
Clinical Concerns | Why you should scan every patient. It is well-documented that in the vast majority of cases you will observe bilateral and asymmetrical foot pronation when your patient is weight-bearing.
Will 2016’s changes in federal overtime regulations affect you?
Legal Ease | Payroll is the largest expense category for most businesses, which is why, starting December 1, 2016, the new U.S. Department of Labor regulations are going to have a big impact on how many small employers deal with paying overtime. Ensuring your office’s employment policies and procedures are compliant with the FLSA is essential.
Ensure a strong patient base by identifying buying signals and cycles
Marketing Matters | The most successful chiropractors know their prosperity is linked directly to understanding their patients. They’re keenly aware that every patient’s life situation is unique, and grasping this allows them to provide effective services. It is essential to set up a system that allows you to know about the events occurring in your patients’ lives.
How your office’s location can make or break your chiropractic practice
Practice Central | When doing a site selection for a chiropractic practice, you should not be looking for the cheapest location you can find. Instead, you should be searching for a location that will enable you to maximize your patient volume. Leasing a weak or mediocre location will negatively impact the income potential of your practice.
How to radically improve every chiropractic consult and patient recommendation
Practice Central | Many DCs are taught the perfect script and delivery during a chiropractic consult will play the biggest role in new-patient care acceptance. Unfortunately, this couldn’t be further from the truth. While your communications do play the most important role in patient perception, trust, and decision-making, how you communicate in today’s chiropractic practice is not taught in school.
7 common questions about value-based healthcare and what it means for DCs
Edit Series | With 2017 quickly approaching, the topic all DCs should be paying attention to is value-based healthcare and the changes it will bring to the profession. Here are the most common questions about value-based healthcare and how DCs can start making changes now. Here are the most common questions about value-based healthcare and how DCs can start making changes now.
Are high heels negatively impacting your patients’ orthopedic health?
Research Results | Over this time shoe styles have changed and evolved in a variety of ways to accommodate the demands of fashion trends, with the highest of heels measuring approximately 5 inches. While fashion has dictated societal choices regarding footwear, the anatomical structure and function of the foot has not changed. This has led to corresponding alterations in gait patterns and is a direct correlate to some foot conditions.
How you deal with data defines your chiropractic practice
Feature | To stay competitive, you need to know how to collect chiropractic data, how to use it, and how it can help keep your business viable now and in the years to come. Technological advances are happening more quickly as new apps, software programs, and hardware flood the market.
How to participate in collaborative healthcare without violating Stark law
Legal Ease | With the passing of the Affordable Care Act, American healthcare is shifting its focus from a reactive, acute- based treatment mentality, to a healthy- lifestyle and care-at-home approach. With their focus on preventive care, chiropractors are a natural fit for this new collaborative approach. But they and other providers should be aware of legal roadblocks and take steps to ensure compliance.
Chiropractic is back in the Medicare crosshairs again
Legal Ease | The OIG has started another round of audits to recapture money paid out inappropriately to chiropractors by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) system. And if you think this does not involve you, think again—you may be surprised by this brand-new risk.
