Chiropractic Billing Refunds for PowerVibe Users.
To facilitate reimbursement for exercise on a PowerVibe unit at your facility, we have put together the following billing guidelines:
– Integrating whole body vibration through a PowerVibe unit into chiropractic practice is very easy. This therapy equipment has been used to rehabilitate athletes for the past 40 years! Accelerates healing by increasing the blood supply to the injured area, increases lymphatic drainage and stimulates the proprioceptive response and generates strength and flexibility without straining the injured tissues.
– When rehabilitation exercises are performed while weight-bearing on a vibrating platform, the beneficial effects of any of the modalities are enhanced. Patients recover faster and feel better sooner!
As patients are still doing their condition-specific exercises, now only on a vibrating platform, the codes to use for this service remain the same and remain:
97110 – Therapeutic exercise to develop strength, endurance, ROM and flexibility
97112 – Neuromuscular reeducation (must be performed standing or sitting)
If you are using rehabilitation in your facility to improve the progress of your patients and you are billing for these procedures, implementing the use of PowerVibe will be a very useful therapeutic tool.
Here are some helpful tips for successful billing for this therapy.
– When a patient is doing their rehabilitation exercises while on a PowerVibe along with Chiropractic Manipulative Therapy (CMT) on a given treatment day, make sure their diagnoses reflect the need for CMT and exercise;
– On the HICFA forms, you should target the spinal diagnosis to spinal manipulative therapy and then target the exercise portion of your procedure codes to soft tissue, limb or injury diagnosis.
– Only then can the insurance company recognize and then reimburse the correct $ for each procedure performed.
Otherwise, your charge for the exercise portion will be included with the handling charge and will therefore be denied.
If you have any questions, feel free to call