Past Medical History
Personal Injury success has nothing (ZERO, NADA, ZILCH) to do with 5-star reviews, social media, marketing, or advertising. Not even "fancy reports" to make the lawyers more will get you new cases. Don't be duped. It is about many small items adding to one big picture, like the adage, "death by a 1000 cuts." Over time, I aim to bring you what has been market-tested in the chiropractic personal injury marketplace to help you thrive in an ethical, compliant, and profitable manner. Close those loopholes and "reduce those cuts" to grow quickly.
The Critical Role of Past Medical History
Prior Injury Details Are Critical In Personal Injury & Non-Personal Injury Cases
This may seem like common sense; however, it is a "gaping hole" in chiropractic and medical records alike. Irrespective of personal injury, past accident history is part of a typical 99202, 99203, 99204 and 92205 for both coding elements needing to be completed and licensure board standards in most states. Reimbursement also hinges on details of prior injuries that come into play on multiple fronts such as when you submit your bills to the carriers. Also, they come into play often a year or more after you have finished treating your patient and will come to haunt you and your accounts receivable and destroy medical-legal relationships if not properly documented.
Your past medical history is a "huge deal" that is often to the arbiter for personal injury and financial success in practice.
When it comes to settlement time on the patient’s case, the insurance company and defense attorney will use your lack of follow through on collecting all pertinent information on the patient’s prior injuries to reduce your reimbursement, deny paying your bills at all, or create a nightmare for you and the plaintiff attorney during deposition/trial. The lack of complete information gives them the "wedge" needed to prevail, and this is one of the "prime" areas they seek when going into a case. Plaintiff lawyers too often abdicate the role of past history to doctors, and when that doctor falls short for no other reason than laziness, the relationship is forever destroyed.
It is crucial to obtain all details about prior injuries not just to regions you are currently treating, but all regions as the defense will try to "tie them in" for pre-existing allegations true or not. Proper documentation and thorough record-keeping can significantly impact settlement outcomes and reimbursement, and The Academy of Chiropractic teaches you how to collect pertinent information on prior injuries. Ensuring you have a comprehensive understanding of a patient's medical history is essential for providing effective treatment and avoiding potential challenges in the future.
Lastly, when a doctor starts with the Academy of Chiropractic, we can spot those "corner cutters" who choose to ignore what you were taught in school to do. Those "corner cutters" typically end up with legal issues. Our job is to identify it and help you fix it so your practice and income can "spiral upwards" while you rest better at night due to a more compliant environment.
The Academy of Chiropractic takes past medical history seriously, and so should you.
Lawyers nationally are now bypassing medical specialists for DCs with advanced credentials. It is common for a DC with advanced credentials [and the plan on how to market those advanced credentials] to get 50-60 or 70 new PI cases per month for years, solely based on the credentials and a plan to get the lawyer to understand there is a "new breed" of chiropractors. Part of that plan is strategic [academic] marketing of those credentials with the knowledge that comes with the education.
The Academy of Chiropractic first gives you a "playbook" to streamline (make easy) your documentation, ensure compliance, triage the trauma cases, review MRI images with you, and then coordinate your entire academic curriculum based on your goals. Then we create a personalized marketing strategy to get your referral sources to run after you [lawyers, MD primary cares, MD Specialists, urgent care centers, and ERs] based on your clinical excellence. There are no two practices alike, so each "Strategic Business Plan" is personalized to you.
Remember, you do not need MDs to build your practice; they need you more. You don't need MD-DC offices. All you need is you and a plan.
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Our fee is $199 monthly, and you can quit anytime [$225 setup fee to protect your online identity]. We will simplify your documentation, teach you a lot of clinical information, and give you a robust EMR Macro library. We include a referenced library for bodily injuries, forms, and templates, review MRIs and X-rays with you, and 24/7 consulting with Dr. Studin.
We will also develop an exit strategy that carries you well past retirement to 100 years old. Your practice is a means to a very HAPPY ENDING :)
If you want to learn more or get that plan, please go to www.lawyerspiprogram.com and watch the 9-minute video. It will help you start your pathway to unlimited referrals because they will run after you. If you want to chat, call me at 631-786-4253... Mark