http://chiroeco.com/chiro-blog/reimbursement-rocks Nuggets for Remittance and Remuneration Success Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:31:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the end of the day, when you are finally able to sit down, do you take the time to contemplate the day you just had? Do you ever replay what has happened, and try to make sense out of it? Tonight as I sat down, all I ... http://chiroeco.com/chiro-blog/reimbursement-rocks/2008/10/15/reaping-what-you-sow/ I traveled this weekend from Denver to Louisiana, to teach a compliance and documentation class. On the way there, on the second leg, in a very small and cramped airplane, I sat next to an Army Sergeant who was on his way home from Iraq. He hadn’t been home in ... http://chiroeco.com/chiro-blog/reimbursement-rocks/2008/09/08/this-is-my-job-and-ill-do-it/ CMS (The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) recently released a report stating that Medicare has recovered more than $1 billion through the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program since 2005, with 85 percent of the money having been taken back from hospitals. When the costs of collecting the money were ... http://chiroeco.com/chiro-blog/reimbursement-rocks/2008/07/18/audit-schmaudit-appealing-or-appalling/ I got the call on my cell phone as I was running through O'Hare Airport between flights. I could tell by the sound of the voice on the other end that this doctor was in distress. He believed he had just figured out that his insurance CA was embezzling. He ... http://chiroeco.com/chiro-blog/reimbursement-rocks/2008/05/09/do-you-have-a-pokeyhontas/ And gold to me equates to "cash". Moolah! Bread! Dough! Dinero! Bird in the hand..worth two in the bush! Cash is King! Why, then, do you think that as a profession, we're so willing to extend credit to complete strangers (ok, relatively complete strangers) with no collateral and wait ... http://chiroeco.com/chiro-blog/reimbursement-rocks/2008/04/01/golden-nuggets-he-who-has-gold-rules/