Obamacare Compliance: What’s The Story?
Obamacare seems like a big axe being held over the heads of all healthcare providers. Because of the volume of details in the law with so many requirements and provisions, it is difficult for most of us to know what to do and not do.
As usual there are people who come out of the woodwork to take advantage of our fear of running afoul of the law. They represent themselves as authorities and our saviors by providing information and manuals they say is necessary to stay out of trouble and an orange jumpsuit.
Like all of you, I have been deluged with sales letters and e-mails hawking various programs for as much as $449.00!
Rather than getting out my checkbook, I decided to take advantage of one of the great benefits of membership in The Florida Chiropractic Association. I called my good friend and FCA attorney Paul Lambert Esq. to get his take on Obamacare Compliance and the programs that are being hyped.
“Most of them are pure BS and not relevant to 99.9% of our profession” said Mr. Lambert. They are happy to sell you a 5 inch thick manual that is for big clinics and hospitals. They include things like OSHA and other requirements that don’t apply unless you have more than ten or fifteen employees.”
Paul Lambert then told me to relax and not worry, that he is working on a Obama Care Compliance Manual that will be relevant to the solo chiropractic practioner and small group practices that make up all but a tiny segment of our profession.
FCA will be offering this manual free of charge to members as it did with the HIPPA Compliance Manual that he also wrote for FCA members. I am confident that, as with the HIPPA manual, Mr. Lambert will do everything he can to simplify what could otherwise be a very complicated and confusing set of regulations.
I wholeheartedly recommend the Florida Chiropractic Association to all Florida Chiropractors and even to those in other nearby states. My personal experience with it has been very positive. I have attended many of their very high quality continuing education programs held at a variety of locations throughout the state, and their big national convention which is held in Orlando every August.
They also now provide a special seminar in late March every other year just before the end of the re-licensing biennium, so that doctors who have not yet completed their CE requirements can pick up the units they still need to file their license renewal in time. FCA even arranges with the State of Florida Department of Health to provide agents to process the doctor’s renewals on site to assure that they will not be late. What an incredible service to members!
It has been my experience that all of the FCA programs are well organized making is very easy to register and document CEUs even when there are several thousand attendees. The FCA staff members are helpful, courteous and always available to answer questions.
All things considered, we get a lot of bang for our FCA membership buck.
