Special Notice to All Chiropractors
CMS has notified the Academy that Chiroprators will be audited starting in August, 2010.
In a relese received today, CMS announced that Chiropractic physicians 
throughout
all jurisdictions will be part of the national review aimed at
eliminating payment error, waste, fraud and abuse in federal programs.
This national program is part of President Obama's executive order
13520 signed on Nov 20, 2009 which expands the provisions of the
Medicare Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program and focuses on
identifying and eliminating the highest improper payment scenarios.
Beginning in August, CERT contractors WILL request records from
Chiropractic offices as part of a Special Studies request that utilize
targeted samples with compressed response time.
Under this CERT special program, your office will only be given 30 days to comply rather than the 45 day time frame for standard requests.
We urge all Chiropractors to double check all records requested to insure that you have all your bases covered!
This is NOT A DRILL and is really short notice - These audit requests will begin in August!
We will prepare and offer an emergency webinar for
August 11th (Set the date aside NOW)
to review the required information for Medicare documentation of
CMT services and will develop a check list for you as part of that
webinar.
Please watch your e-mails for notice and registration.
throughout
all jurisdictions will be part of the national review aimed at
eliminating payment error, waste, fraud and abuse in federal programs.
This national program is part of President Obama's executive order
13520 signed on Nov 20, 2009 which expands the provisions of the
Medicare Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program and focuses on
identifying and eliminating the highest improper payment scenarios.
Beginning in August, CERT contractors WILL request records from
Chiropractic offices as part of a Special Studies request that utilize
targeted samples with compressed response time.
Under this CERT special program, your office will only be given 30 days to comply rather than the 45 day time frame for standard requests.
August 11th (Set the date aside NOW)
to review the required information for Medicare documentation of
CMT services and will develop a check list for you as part of that
webinar.
Please watch your e-mails for notice and registration.
What’s New with the San Fernando Valley CCA?
Upcoming District Meeting: Sept. 22nd @ 7:00 pm CSUN University Club
Speaker - Dr. Eric Mumbauer
Subject - Medicare Billing & SOAP 's (no ICD-9)
HOW TO DEFEND AN AUDIT !
Members Free
Non Members - $ 75.00
A special thanks to Dr. Hubie Chang and HJ Ross for putting together an informative and insightful meeting. We appreciate all those who were in attendance and look forward to seeing you at our next district meeting. To see more pictures from the event please visit our blog.