New Guidance on Federal Relief Fund Specifically Mentions Chiropractors In guidance released late last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the latest Provider Relief Fund (PRF) application period has been expanded to include provider applicants such as residential treatment facilities, chiropractors, and eye and vision providers Read more
Doctors of chiropractic are eligible for a new round of relief funds under the CARES Act. To meet eligibility providers must be enrolled in Medicare whether Par or Non-Par and have billed Medicare fee-for-service during the period of Jan.1, 2019-Mar. 31, 2020. You are eligible for these added funds regardless Read more
Chiropractors are eligible. On July 31, 2020, HHS announced that certain Medicare providers would be given another opportunity to receive additional Provider Relief Fund payments. These are providers who previously missed the June 3, 2020 deadline to apply for additional funding equal to 2 percent of their total patient care revenue Read more
Please be advised the information received from ASH earlier this week relating to the transition was misquoted by ASH provider relations and that the transition to using ASH with Blue Shield of California is going forward for 2020. As more details emerge we will forward it to all our members. Read more
2019 Medicare deductible Medicare deductible will increase very slightly for 2019 and will be $185 ($2 increase from 2018) Medicare fees are being rolled out but we will update members when we are assured they are final as typical in the last few years the rates initially published are not Read more
As of December 7, 2018, TriWest Healthcare Alliance will be the sole 3rd party administrator for Department of Veterans Affairs(VA) Benefits for the entire nation. TriWest will roll out their expansion in five phases over the next eight weeks. If you previously treated veterans via HealthNet or are currently billing Read more
The 2019 codes have been published and now are included in the HJ Ross Info Network. Note these codes can be found by doing a search with â10-1-2018â and this will provide the codes are that are being added, deleted or changed for 2019 specific to chiropractic providers. The codes Read more
2018 HJ Ross Network Member Updates CPT 2018 CPT code 97762 was deleted the code was described as Checkout for orthotic/prosthetic use, established patient, each 15 minutes, 97763 was added and replaced 97762 97763- Orthotic(s)/prosthetic(s) management and/or training, upper extremity(ies), lower extremity(ies), and/or trunk, subsequent encounter orthotic(s)/prosthetic(s), encounter, each 15 Read more
2017-2018 Chiro Digital Coding Updates With time there are always changes, additions and updates and the following items have been recently updated in the digital coding library. Specifically in the Insurance Coverage Guidelines section  Aetna has updated it diagnosis list for allowed codes for acupuncture as well Read more
Medicare deductible for 2019 has been published and will go up to $185. The 2018 deductible was $183. Medicare fees are available and in most instances had a slight increase for spinal CMT. Note for all physical medicine codes to Medicare you must also code them with a GP modifier. Read more