The CarePlanTrack magazine
Care plans, documentation, payer rules and the working economics of solo and two provider chiropractic and manual therapy clinics.
practical guide
A care plan is a written promise about how often, for how long, and toward what measurable goal. Here is how to set frequency, duration, and the re exam date before the second visit is ever booked.
comparison
Three ways to charge for a course of manual care, and three different sets of consequences: how each one handles refunds, unearned visits, discounts, dual fee schedules, and patients who have Medicare.
mistakes to avoid
A care plan rarely falls apart at visit twenty. It falls apart in the first week, in how the visit count was quoted, how the re exam was left undated, and how the first missed appointment was handled.
regulation and compliance
Medicare pays a chiropractor for exactly one thing: manual manipulation of the spine to correct a subluxation. Here is what the AT modifier asserts, when an ABN is required, and what PART must show.
case study
A composite walkthrough of one acute low back case: the intake findings that justified twenty four visits, the three phases of frequency, the visit twelve re exam, and the note that closed the file.
trends and outlook
Coverage for manual care keeps narrowing through annual visit caps and network utilization review, even as clinical guidelines keep recommending it. Here is what that squeeze is doing to small clinics.
checklist
A re exam decides whether a plan continues, changes, or ends. This checklist covers the history questions to repeat, the physical rechecks, the outcome scores to re-score, and the decision to record.
numbers and benchmarks
Patient visit average, care plan completion rate, and unused prepaid visits are three separate numbers with three separate denominators. Here is how each one is built and what quietly breaks it.
field report
Five days of the work that decides whether a care plan finishes: the morning gap list, the call that goes out before noon, the rules that govern health reminders, and the fee nobody enjoys charging.
Every article here is written from the working side of a chiropractic or osteopathic practice: the plan, the note, the payer rule and the visit that never got rebooked. If you would rather see the software behind it, book a CarePlanTrack demo for your clinic.