Documentation by Dr. Gregg Friedman and The Bulletproof Chiro

After being in practice for 32 years, teaching documentation and coding for about 20 years, reviewing records and performing IMEs for a lot of years, I see and hear the same things over and over again with regards to documenting subjective complaints. Let’s make this easy. Initial Visit According to the Mayo Clinic, 80% of the proper diagnosis comes from a good history. Unfortunately, many chiropractors tend to take shortcuts

I remember the “good ‘ole days” of chiropractic. The days when it seemed that everyone in America had health insurance, when the typical deductible was about 100 bucks and the patient only had to pay 20% of the charges. And their policy limited chiropractic treatment to only “UNLIMITED VISITS.” Sigh… When a new patient came in, we did the ortho/neuro exam we all learned in chiropractic school, found a few

In the old movie, Cool Hand Luke, the Captain said to Luke, “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” This has been a major problem with the chiropractic profession since our inception. So many people who’ve never been to a chiropractor have simply no idea what it is that we do and why we do it. In fact, the rest of what I like to refer to as the