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As we jump into those slides together, uh, we’re going to be able to see what we’re going to be working on. It’s your vet from games, university. So glad to see you. And as I stated, we’re going to be playing around with the complaint discounting game today. Sometimes it’s a little bit difficult to know exactly what you’re going to do, and we’re going to get started with those slides so that we can get moving quickly. As you know, I try to keep it power packed and moving fast as we go. So as we start the slides now, uh, we’re going to be able to move along and get those things underway. Are you ready? Welcome to 2021. So today, while we’re talking, we’re going to discover how we can do legal discounting options. So many times here at KMC university is I’m bringing in clients who are coaching my own clients or just doing consultations.
Overall. We noticed a lot of issues in the way that people are discounting, even with some of their compliant coupon offers that they think they have, just because someone told you to do it and they’re getting by with it down the street doesn’t necessarily make it okay. We always need to verify those things, make sure that they dot all the I’s cross all the T’s as far as any federal regulations, any type of other things may be going. So always want to make sure we have that in place. We’re going to also recognize where you may have some inconsistencies in your patient fee schedules learn how to properly implement some hardship agreements in your office and men. It may be appropriate to use something more like a professional courtesy policy. So again, these are the things that we’ll be covering today. Um, as we move into the rest of our slides and I do walk them, you, I do appreciate Carver secure giving me these opportunities to speak to you and coming to you again from KMC university.
So as we talk about this one person said, very famous person said, your fee is your fee is your fee. And you know, with real estate it’s location, location, location, but when it comes to having compliant fee systems in your office, it is your fee is your fee is your fee. And we want to always make sure that we’re abiding by those rules dotting our I’s again, crossing those T’s just so we can be compliant rest at night. Don’t worry about the fee police to come get you and say, Oh, that’s wrong. And we’ll figure out who some of those players may be. And then we need to figure out where are the discounts coming from? So we’ll have some that are imposed that are like some of our regulated contracted. And then we may have some of those that are a little bit more elective in nature.
And we’ll talk about those. So we’ll get a clear understanding about that as we go along today. So as we continue to move forward, I’ve kind of wanted to start with some of the dangers and pitfalls that you could fall into. If your fees are not compliant in your clinic. So oftentimes we’ll see inducement violations. We’re not necessarily doing it to induce some may be, but we’re not necessarily doing some of our practices to induce, but it’s what necessarily our intention was. It’s what the perception is by those governing entities. Many times, anytime we have an issue in our fees or any other area with our billing, it’s no balls into the next area of false claims act. Nobody can afford these things. Number one, you don’t want to have recoupments number two, you don’t want to have any issues with, um, what you’re going to be noticing.
Um, when you’re sending over to a pair and they’re saying that’s inappropriate, or we’re going to find out somebody else who’s playing some really dirty tricks lately. Um, as we go along and then the anti-kickback violations, we need to make sure these are not being identified with our office. And we’re going to learn how to safeguard that as we go along. So Medicare vocabulary goes inducement and remuneration. So when we’re talking about that inducement, that’s influencing someone to come in and, uh, maybe giving away something for free. That’s, uh, maybe higher than the value that’s allowed or we’re giving away discounts through our waiving of copays deductibles and things like that. You may not give any item or service away that exceeds $15 or $75 aggregate, um, to a Medicare patient. This really falls over into federally funded patients. And what happens is when it falls over here, generally, you’re finding a lot of the payers piggybacking on this and saying, Hey, you know, we can’t do this for, uh, for our patients either, or our patients.
You need to have fraud, waste and abuse in place because you’re dealing with us. Everybody’s moving to this model. But right now we know that there are penalties imposed from federal entities when we do inducements and the remunerations waiving copays and things like that. So it’s in the regulation. We have the, the patient solicitation, anti inducement provisions. You can see it here on the screen, someone who’s offering or transferring to a Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary, any remuneration that the person knows should or would likely influence their decision to come in. This is applicable to Medicare and Medicaid. We know that VA, uh, moves over into that and we have some other programs and you’re talking about the affordable care act. And some of those things, you gotta be very, very careful. And why said you can’t afford it? Look at the bottom sentence. It says up to a $10,000 penalty for each wrong for act.
Oh, all right, well, let’s get it stopped. Now. We can’t afford to be over here in playing in the non-compliant game. You know, where it’s like playing Stratego, we’re playing chess. We got to move our pieces just right. We can still get to the other side and win what we want to win, but we avoid being captured and avoid the bomb when you’re playing Stratego. And we just want to make sure that we’re matching the right places together. And we’re still moving towards our goal of being profitable, getting our patients in the door and not scaring them off. So as we go ahead and move to our next slide, we’re going to talk about again a little bit more about that remuneration. We’re going to waive your copay. I had a local dentist, um, asked me several years ago when I was working in the local clinic.
He said, what my office thought we’ll do is we’ll have a doctor or even our staff members get treated. We’ll submit it to their insurance, just to help them meet the deductible. And I’m asking you to do that for me. I know you do a write off for doctors and, but I want you to submit it because I know you’re going to write it off. And, um, I want that way. It’ll help me meet my deductible. It’s not going to hurt you guys. I’ll still pay the bill. Uh, he did not like my fight back. I said, I can’t do that. I can not waive your deductible or copay. I don’t have any financial, uh, hardship in place or anything saying that this is okay for you. And he got a little Tifft. He said, I do it at my office. I can’t help what you do at your office.
We can see it’s usually way well laid out, especially in our federal programs, but we can also find it in our commercial programs. So always be sure that you’re just, again, dotting I’s and crossing T’s that we’re playing our chess pieces or our Stratego pieces. Right? And we’re being a little bit more intuitive where those bombs may be laying there waiting to capture us. So we’ve got to be so careful. We had a poor guy, all the one chiropractic. He was in Iowa. And this is out. We’re not, this is not something we’re displaying of one of our clients. This was something published. You can go find it on the department of justice website. Yourself probably could do it through the Google search of any type of search engine would bring this up. But while he was doing, he’s like, Oh, my poor Medicare patients.
They can’t afford a STEM. I hear this all the time. I’m not joking. I am not kidding you one bit. I hear it constantly. Well, they can’t afford it. Medicare doesn’t cover it anyways. Why does it matter? All I have to do is pull this up on the screen and say, this is why it matters. They feel, even though your intent was to help them out, they feel your intent was to influence them to come to your office because maybe Dr. So-and-so down the street is an offering that, but you’re sitting here going, yeah, Yvette, the doctor so-and-so down the street is offering that. I’ve never talked to them. I don’t know what’s going on there. And we can’t help if they’re doing it wrong, it doesn’t make their wrong BR right. So we’ve always got to be careful, but this poor guy in his innocence and just trying to be nice, ended up with the $79,919, uh, payback that he had to do.
And you can see there after the highlighting, it hit the anti-kickback statute. And the false claims act happened between. And look at that span of time, they looked at, they looked at a long span of time. You can pull it up and read a little bit more. But, uh, the thing is, is that you’ve just got to be so careful. And as you know, the old saying goes, don’t let your good be evil spoken of always make sure that if you’re going to do good, you can do the good or you find the legal way to do the good. And we’ll talk about that. So the biggest thing that this member rev represents is that we want to avoid dual fee schedules altogether. This is not something that you want to have in your clinic. And I’m going to just kind of hit the nail on the head here in a minute.
When I tell you why a with somebody you’re not expecting it to be somebody playing tricks, I told you earlier, they’re playing these crazy tricks on everybody, but we want to figure out what is the dual fee schedule, because it can misrepresent charges to a carrier. I had the pleasure to do an onsite back in October, we talked about it a couple of times, since I was here, they were just having the patients pay $55 here. I’ll take your credit card right here, $55. And they were billing the insurance company 150 I’m like, how did you know that was their co-insurance their copay? Oh, well, we just do it. Uh, we’re out of network. I just sat back. And I said, well, that will stop. It has to stop. Now we have to clean this up. And, uh, needless to say, they’re probably one of the top producers with one of the medical discount plans.
I’m going to talk about here in a little bit, because we got that straightened out for them. Again, false claim act violations. And then it may very well violate your provider agreements. Think about it. You know, we’ve got blue cross patient Lang here and blue cross representative behind him, PI patient here, PI representative behind them, cash, patient, ear cash, patient behind them. Everybody has the same thing. Everybody goes to the front desk together. You will bill your insurance. Two 50 we’ll bill you two 50 and that’ll just be 50 today. Same service don’t work it. And very well may violate your provider agreements, but keep watching here. It is the PAI complex. I cannot stress with you how much this is happening. We had one of our members call him the other day. What do we do? Oh Lord, what do we do? Well, we’re like, well, first may we do a consultation with you to see if we can get this worked out together, figure out what you did, figure out what needs to be cleaned up and what we need to stop.
And we looked at it and what had happened is they had Geico, give them a call and say, I don’t have insurance. I was just calling to figure out if you have a cash break for your patients. Oh yes. If you don’t have insurance, your visit will only be blocked. Next check. That’s what they send. And guess what? They reported them. They reported them for having a fee schedule that they were giving to cash patients that they weren’t giving to them. There was no legal reason. So everybody starts with the same fee. There was no justifiable legal reason on that next line for a deduction that said they should get something. There was nothing regulating it, nothing contracting it. They were just giving it because that’s the way they do their cash patients. Well, state, farm, and Geico doesn’t understand why that doesn’t pass along.
So we ended up having some pretty major issues. There got to clean it up, got to write some policy. Luckily we were able to work on it a little bit creatively with them. Uh, obviously some reeducation of the staff up front at the front desk and how they’ll answer the phone needs to take place. But overall, their feast systems need space systems needed to become compliant. So we talked a little bit about those impose discounts, the ones you can’t do anything about. You signed the dotted line, you get the dog and pony show that comes along with it. So those are the regulated, which is more like your Medicare, your worker’s comp, some personal injury, no fall and Medicaid. Can’t do anything about it. It is what it is now. Your workers’ comp and personal injury. Mainly your personal injury can differ from state to state.
Sometimes you can expect your full, uh, reimbursement of whatever your charge is. Other times you’re going to be part of some type of regulated or some type of contracted because you’ve got a silent PPO or maybe they’re pigging backing on some other type of pair. Then we have those contracted discounts, which are, I signed the dotted line because I want to be a provider with blue cross. I signed the dotted line because I want to be a provider with Aetna. This payer, that payer, these are those you can avoid. These are the conundrums you can get into, especially when you have those per diem payers that say I’ll pay you $65 a visit, no matter what you do. We have people all the time trying to circumvent that we’re like, Hmm, go back first, read your EOB. Did it tell you it can go to patient responsibility.
Now, go back and read your contract. Look at your medical review policies. Make sure that you know, what you’re doing is appropriate. This is why you can’t take your fees lightly in your clinic. They have to be every I dotted and every T crossed in order to be compliant and be most profitable. I think when you’re looking at impose discounts, one of the most profitable things you can do for your office is one take the services that you do and find out does that payer exclude them. Aetna has a very long list of CMT services. They consider experimental and investigational. Are you on that list? Does it even make sense to go in is everything you do on that list of experimental and investigational that’s one step. The next is if they won’t give you your fee schedule or a fee schedule prior to enrolling with them, ask a peer down the street, Hey, what does it look like for the fee schedule for this insurance company?
Know what it costs for you to be profitable in your clinic, and then gauge if you can go in before you sign the dotted line. Because remember once we signed the dotted line, we are now either regulated, contracted with an imposed discount. Can’t do anything about it. So you get out and with Medicare, we know you can’t get out how to give that commercial one more time. So that relationship with the payer and network, it really starts here. The doctor joins the payer, the patient pays the premium. They have an insurance card, you have this type of agreement. Everything comes back to the central hub of that payer and that network telling you what you can charge. That relationship is between the provider in the patient. But again, a lot of times we’re relying upon that and that requires the enrollment of the doctor and, and the enrollment of the patient into that plan.
So again, this is going to be part of your imposed, contracted, regulated, uh, type of discounting. That’ll go on. So we’ll skip over to the next part, which everybody’s probably wondering why are you taking so stinking long to get to this part about it? I need to know how I can do discounts. You told me what I can avoid. Now tell me what I can do, because now that you scare me to death, I need a way to deal with these patients that are cash, or maybe don’t have a great insurance plan. Maybe don’t want to use their insurance plan. Maybe have limited benefits. So let’s go there together. There really are. There really is one fee in your office that is if your spinal CMT for a nine, eight, nine, four, one is 55, then it’s 55. Then it’s 55 and it’s 55 next payer.
It’s 55. Everybody starts at the same level. Now the next line down. Why? Why is it not 55? Tell me why it’s not well, because it’s regulated. Okay, great. Well, because it’s contracted great. Well, because they’re a cash, they’re a cash patient. Okay. Can we talk about that cash patient for a moment? How large is that discount with discount by half, sometimes 75% wrong answer. We’ve got to make sure that’s within spec. Although the federal government has some rules that we believe are five to 15% on a time of service discount. Do you know that your state or your payers may have something to say, but again, we’ve got the actual fee next line down. Why shouldn’t they pay that fee? And we’ve always got to make sure we have checked with every entity that we’re doing that appropriately. So again, the discounts go imposed an elective.
We’re on the elective side. Now these are the ones that are at your discretion that you decide to implement in your clinic. As we move down, we’ll go the other direction. We can see that those are elective fees could be your five to 15% time of service savings, financial hardship, professional courtesy, or maybe your discount, medical plan participation, something like Cairo health USA to where they are set up in most States, I believe the only state is Washington, where they’re not in where you can offer your patients a compliant discount, go to bed at night and know you did it right? Setting up your own fees in your office. So even though it may fall in kind of that contract land, it’s your fees that you picked. We already know insurance. Isn’t going to pay you your full fee. You’re not going to chase your tail with this cash patient.
Why not give them a little bit of a discount? Uh, so they don’t have to pay you 565. Maybe they pay you 200. Plus the joining fee to Cairo health, which covers them and all their dependents for an entire year. It’s crazy. It’s like Costco or Sam’s, but these are the elective discounts that you can do, but you have to do them right again, dot the I’s and cross the T’s. So again, actual fees, discounted fees, or where are we going to focus our attention? And here are four possible fee structures that will help you pass the muster. When it comes to doing this compliantly one charge your actual fee. My fee is my fee is my fee. And if you’re cash, that’s my fee. That’s my fee. Absolutely. You charge it to the insurance company. They come back and say, write it off. You write it off.
Everybody going out the door gets charged the same. That is super compliant, no issues. Everybody pays your actual fee. You’re not discounting. You could charge a reasonable time of service of five to 15% for your federally funded patients. Always make sure to see if your state has a more strict role. Whichever is most strict rule, real rule and be the one that you’ll have to implement for your office. But when you find the state may be more lenient that may apply towards those outside those federal programs. So charge a reasonable time of service discount. Five, 15%. For me personally, I would not want to think about this as federal. You get 15, this is you. You get there. I would pull out my hair. I would either do five to 15 based on my bookkeeping savings and or do something like Kira health. Make it simple.
Don’t complicate it for your patients. We’re already in uncertain times with money and they don’t want somebody feeling like they’re jacking around with their money. They want to know this is what it is or this is what it is. You can pay our full fee. You can join this discount medical plan, and this is what your fee will be. Which one would you like? Let them make the choice, give them a choice. You could use a network-based legally discounted fee of choice ups, Kira health. And then you have those legal options with the hardship indigents policies for those patients who qualify. And I did say qualified. So these are the ones we’ll look at Cairo health, a little bit hardship, professional, and then billing for family members. I’m not going to cover a slide specifically on billing for family members. I just want to cover it verbally with you today.
Please know that with Medicare and many payers, they restrict you from billing, your immediate family members, and they do give you a list of what that is defined as they saved your mother, your father, brother, sister. And they go on. It’s a list probably if you’re looking at the page about that long, that tells you who you should not be billing to the payer. A lot of times we find family that I’m kind of tempted to help exhaust a deductible for their family members, or I’ll just send it in. I need a little extra cash family’s demanding to pay. Please look at these rules, please make sure you’re dotting your I’s and crossing your T’s. So the compliant time of service discount, it is based on viable bookkeeping savings. Pick one of them. What does it truly look at your overhead? What does it truly saving you to not have to send the claim, chase the claim, get authorization for the claim.
Go back and get authorization again, to see them for five more visits, chase your tail, wait, uh, appeal. Do all that. Send a statement. What are you really saving? Are you saving 5% great? Are you saving 15% great. Write a policy. There’s your time of service discount? It’s often, um, found that a lot of people are using something that’s not within those guardrails. And it’s unreasonable when we get up into 50% or, Oh, I just have a flat rate for cash patients. Can I ask you what you’re billing the insurance? Well, typically about $180. Okay. What is your flat rate for your cash patients? Oh, it’s 50. They just come in whenever. And the other one I hear that makes me want to scream is, Oh, well when they’re with their insurance, we just always use the nine, eight, nine four one. And when they’re cash, we just use the nine, eight, nine, four.
Oh, I’m like, Oh Lord, you can’t play with your codes. You can’t play with your fees to make it fit what you need. So you gotta find what you need and get it to fit what you have to have. So understanding again, that when we’re using these time of service discounts, there are guard rails, and they really should be because it’s a time of service be paid in full at the time of service, maybe lingering just a day or two after, but it’s got to have some parameters on it, not loosened it. So that relationship, when we talked about Cairo, health USA kind of works like this. I love them. By the way. Uh, before I came to KMC university, I said there were a couple of things I wouldn’t live without and practice. And that was Tusa Cairo health and KMC because they helped me to get to, you know, to the knowledge I have today.
They a part of how I got here. And when I joined Caro health, what I could do was now legally offered discounts. So at the office I served last, we were a specialty clinic. Uh, I know a lot of you say, Hey, all of us are specialty clinics and we truly are, but we did something that no one in a very large geographical region did here. We have pizza. People travel in from thousands of miles away. We have people that traveled in from States. We had about a five state surrounding area that came to this practice. And, uh, so we needed to make sure that we had some way to compliantly offer them a discount. So we looked at Kira health USA, and here’s in that specialty niche. Our typical first visit was $565. It’s just what it was. We knew when we bill blue cross and blue shield for those services, that would qualify that generally we could get back somewhere around three 70 when we build Aetna and we’re coming down closer on two 25 and we’re like, number one, we’re not chasing it.
We’re not having to get authorization. Um, that’s we want to just count more than 15%. What can we do? We went with Cairo health and how it ended up being that $565 visit came down to $200. All the patients had to pay that day was $249. They’d paid 49 to Cairo health. They paid 200 to us and they didn’t pay five 65. And they kept getting all the discounts that we made available through Cairo health. From that point forward through the rest of that year. So doctor joins, he sets his own fees of what he wants it to be. You can do discounting for multiple family members. You can set it up that, Hey, I want to cap these visits here. Or, Oh, I want them just to be this percentage off, or I want this service to be that don’t include that in my cap.
As you see, I’m telling you all kinds of things you can do. You can’t do that with Medicare. You can’t do it that with a payer where you can order it and have it your way. But with Kaiser health, in many ways, you can have it your way compliantly and your patient has an option. If they don’t want to pay 55 and they want to pay 35, then they join Cairo health. If they say no, then they really said, I’ll pay 55, no problem cash check or credit card, but the patient joins. And again, they, and all their dependents are covered. This relationship is about between that doctor and the patient. And we have compliant discounting. I cannot tell you and stress to you enough. This is a huge Savile. When you’re looking at discounting in your practice, the other one may be that professional courtesy.
Did you know that you actually need a policy when you are treating your staff members for free? Please don’t play that game. If I’m going to help them meet their deductible, please don’t do it please. You can’t waive the deductible. Their insurance is banking on you to collect that this is part of the plan they chose. But if you’re going to treat them in your immediate family members for free habit in your professional courtesy, um, what about others in the community? Maybe it’s all the first responders. Maybe it’s ministers. Maybe it’s all other doctors define that, put it into policy. But for the love of the Lord, don’t be like what that doctor asked me to do. He didn’t get me to budge, which was no. We offer this service for free. I cannot charge your insurance for something we offer for free to you, nor will I help you meet your deductible.
The only way I could have done this was told him you are going to forgo our professional courtesy. And when that bill comes in and it tells us what your deductible is, we will have to assess that charge to you. So keep in mind, this is one legal way. You just gotta make sure you’re dotting your I’s and crossing your T’s and no isn’t for all your friends. And the quick way, we’ll just do a bunch of professional courtesy. No, they’re still dotting of I’s and crossing of T’s that need to take place. What about hardship first visit, take their word. I can’t afford it. Okay. Well, we offer hardship for people who can’t afford service, and we kind of can get by with taking their word the first time, but not after that, we actually have to verify don’t just take the word and my office.
I had one way you could qualify if you were on government assistance and you could show me proof of government assistance and I checked it on a consistent basis, then I would qualify you. I did not think about some of these other things to implement. Ours was just pretty short and sweet. We had Cairo health and we knew we could fix most problems and we have payment plans. So we knew we could fix most financial considerations for patients, but that was one consideration. And when I did it, it’s like, you can come for $25 a visit. If you’re having an exam, it’s another 25. If you’re having x-rays that’s another 25. So the most they ever paid was 75, but that’s the way my hardship was set up, but I couldn’t just offer it because they said they did, especially if they’re coming in with their Prada shoes and their Gucci purse or their nails are always done.
I’m not disqualifying those people. I’m not saying they’re in a financial hardship, but I’m saying we have to use a systems of measure to verify this. Or then this is not having an I dotted and T crossed. We do know that those federal poverty guidelines are about to come out. They’re just right out of. They’re always a little slow for some reason, but once they come out, we’ll be able to see what those federal poverty guidelines are and what percentage that particular patient falls under. You have the ability to set that up down. You can see this as one of our forms, by the way, that’s in the library. If you’re a library member, you can find this in the office management section one, and that’s going to be in less than three. And you’ll be able to go in there and tweak. You can see any of that great out areas, something they can do, but you can set what your fees will be.
Put your exclusions in there and make sure that you’re able to just do this appropriately, going by those guidelines. Again, a little bit of leeway with you on what you want to set up. There’s any questions on this? This is a bigger topic than what I’m able to cover here. Definitely let us know. And just a little bit of role playing. So let’s say you treat Medicare part a and part B patients. So are you enrolled? No, we already talked about it many sessions ago. We can’t see the Medicare part B patient. If you are, you’ve got to charge the appropriate fee for the excluded services. Even if they’re a, QMB a duly eligible, you still on the excluded services have to, you’ve got to bill on behalf of them. Your collections will be based on their co-pay, their co-insurance deductible, figuring all that out.
There’s one of your regulated then what about the part C if you’re not enrolled, we fill, these are cash patients to your office. You can see down at the bottom that we have cash paying patient, not insured. We have actual fee, um, or that discount medical plan. They get a super bill. Make sure if you’re giving a super bill and you’re doing discounts that there’s a line item that shows what that discount is. Don’t send that patient out the door with, Oh, it was a hundred dollars and you only charged them 50 because they’re going to get paid to come in your office. If their insurance, as an allowable higher than your 50, they will actually make money coming to you. So it needs to have everything listed there that shows that actual financial transaction that you have. What if you’re not enrolled with the insurance plan, then you have that cash play game that you can do again.
But over here on the other side, you’re going to be abiding by those contracts, looking for deductibles, obeying those rules of medically necessary and active maintenance and all that type of stuff. But you’ve got to bill, according to them, you sign the line. You’re there. You can see a little bit with the non par and the par there at the bottom. What about worker’s comp? Well, with some worker’s comp, you have to be enrolled in order to treat them. So please make sure there’s a lot of rules in my state alone that you got to jump through hoops. If you weren’t the first person who saw that patient a little bit of here that you can look at, but if you’re one option with PI patients, if you feel like you’re always getting stung by it, make them cash patients. When they get paid in their settlement, have the lawyer incorporate what they already paid to you.
That’s probably one of the most simple ways to get rid of the problem of lingering bills. So this is what it looks like when you’re done setting up your fees. We’ve got the doctor’s actual fees up here. Next rainbow down is our contract and fees are regulated fees in our hardship fees. And when it all starts coming together, we can see that Cairo health USA, that legal way to do a discount gets the fall in the green it’s right there. It’s part of our contract. And we got to pick what it looked like. Imagine that it wasn’t $9 for a therapy, unless you want $9 for a therapy. I have seen reimbursements be that low or say, Oh no, that’s bundled. Oh no, we don’t pay for that. On the same day, Kyra health USA is a great work around, especially with, for high deductible patients.
You can see that you’ve start piling in those other things with Cairo health, you’ll have those cap fees or your discount and name it. What you want it to be, make it that way. It includes everything. Oh, no includes everything. But this, this is you. It’s an elective discount. You get a set, a lot of it up. Then you’ve got some of the other things that come down in there where you’ve got this hybrid of Medicare and Cairo health. What the same service cannot have medic cannot have Cairo health, but we know Medicare only covers spinal CMT. So there’s a bunch more, we could apply that to. So it makes a very beautiful product for those patients. And then down at the bottom, we have our hardship fee schedule. This makes it all look beautiful. One pretty rainbow everything’s in there. Everything’s compliant. Nothing’s out here on the perimeter.
That’s kind of not okay. We fit all of our discounts nicely into this beautiful rainbow to where we can rest at night and be compliant. So you’re free to choose, but you’re not a free free from the consequences of your choice. So be careful when you’re doing fee changes in your office, making sure that you’re doing it by dotting I’s and crossing T’s. If you’re a member, if by chance you didn’t have this in your, a member, we do free schedule a fee schedule consultations, either help you, uh, get Kira health USA put in place at which we will. We’ll take you all the way up to it. Almost being implemented, just what they have to do at the very end, or if you’re not interested in that we still do. If you’re a member, that’s something we did. So it’s free for you as a member.
Um, the very next thing I want to show you are hot topics. And then we got to go hot topics. One, one that ABM form had to be implemented. Look at the bottom of your form. If you’re an Anon version, six 2023, starting January 1st. If you’ve got more questions about what you do about the one signed in December or November, you’re glad to give us a call. But as far as the new ones being signed, ABM must be implemented. When you’re looking at box D your mandatory is spinal CMT only don’t have anything else on it. And know when to issue it, big issues going on misconceptions, going on in this industry regarding how to use an ABN appropriately. And it can get you in big trouble because when they pull your records, they pull the ABNs in M coding went into effect. January 1st one code is gone for the new patient.
Do you know which one it is? You should never be using the nine nine two one one. That’s an established patient, but there’s one of them went away. The change in the coding methodology, how you’ll get to it is all lining up over on the medical decision-making. And although the AMA and all those rules have come out and said, Hey, history and exam, you can do it. If it’s warranted for us as a profession, it is warranted because that’s how we establish the medical necessity. Everything is built off the history and the exam next down Medicare fee schedule update. We had a big 10% drop this year. It was a huge disappointment and the middle of COVID and everything’s shutting down practices. It shocked everyone. However, we saw about as quickly as those one up on the website, they got pulled back down because the COVID relief came a bias about sort of bipartisan act that removed the full 10% gave us back 3.7, 5%.
The reduction is still sitting at six two five. And I’m just telling you if you want to be a part of the solution and not have to sit back and accept the problem, contact your state representatives. Remember it’s time to verify benefits again. And if you don’t remember why I go back and listen to a couple of my sessions a little bit ago, one more thing. If you are a KMC university member, please keep in mind. You’re going to be seeing a lot of stuff coming from us. Go in this spring, don’t put your head in the sand or not look at an email cause there’s a new website launch. You’re going to go to the, our website. You’re going to, uh, what happened, make sure you’re paying attention. And if you have any questions with what we’ve discussed today, feel free to give us a call. Uh, we’re always here to help. We’ll be more than happy. That’s (855) 832-6562 or info@kmcuniversity.com next week. Make sure you’re here because Janice Hughes will be presenting again. It seems like she follows me up a lot, but I think that’s really great. And I’ve watched these people and they’re wonderful if you miss these, just let us know we’re here for you. Good to see you. Thank you for spending some time with me again today. Bye-bye
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