Dr. Lewkovich examines Big PI Insurance’s new attacks against chiropractic care.
PI bills are denied or delayed for ‘failure’ to clearly prove the treatment plan/goals to justify care.
For example, Medicare audits have found that a high percentage of DC’s fail to property document in this area. This ‘failure’; is used to deny care as not being ‘medically necessary’.
When presenting a problem, Lewkovich, always offers a practical and easy solution.
A new form created by Dr. Lewkovich offers a “Treatment Plan/Goals of Care,” which is one page long and easy to complete. This form ought to be shared with the patient to help him or her become aware of the work you are doing to improve their condition.
Contact johntawlian@shawnsteel.com for your copy.
And, thank Dr. Lewkovich the next time you see him.
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Mr. Grigoryan, who was driving his own limo to pick up a client, was rear-ended on the 134 Freeway. Defendant bitterly complained that the claimant greatly exaggerated his chiropractic care, and received treatments unrelated to the accident.
Claimant argued he was injured in the neck, back, wrist and finger. Besides effective chiropractic care, he also received trigger point injections. Farmers brought ‘hired-gun’ Arthur Kreitenberg MD, an orthopedic surgeon who usually charges over $5,000 per case to attack the plaintiff and plaintiff doctors. The jury did not believe nor trust him.
Total medical bills [mostly MD] amounted to some $26,000. Farmers offered $15,000. Plaintiff demanded that the medical bills be paid before trial. Farmers declined. It took the Jury 3 hours to award Mr. Grigoryan some $110,000.
Grigoryan vs. Jarrahi Jan 10, 2014, LA Superior Court, Judge Jan A. Pluim.
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