2025 LB Payne Insurance Seminar | Michael Coates - 2 CEs

This course is a part of our live 2025 LB Payne Insurance Seminar

Title: The Ethics of Personal Injury
Instructor: Michael Coates, Esq.
CEs: 2 CEs

Personal injury is the only industry segment where chiropractic is the #1 lead medical  specialty – the first medical provider most auto collision patients see.  It also is often the best paying segment of a medical practice because of the ability to be paid at or near full out-of-network rates. Personal injury has several players – patients, attorneys, medical providers, and insurance adjusters – with differing motivations and common missteps that pose issues, risks and problems.  The documentation processes that providers employ in PI not only can protect them, but provide a value driver for the good attorneys as well as protecting them from the difficult attorneys. The latest documentation mandate and exposure is found in the No Surprises Act, federal legislation to prevent surprise medical billings. The NSA is something chiropractic must gain the knowledge and compliance or run the risk of fines, waived bills or reimbursements to patients.

This course will help providers better understand personal injury, the opportunities presented, as well as how documentation is a critical cog and must be approached in a unique manner. Providers will learn how to avoid the pitfalls that can legally and financially damage their medical practice and how to protect their practices. In the end, there is a way to approach documentation and personal injury so that everyone can win, and the provider can take advantage of the personal injury highway.

Course Outline

Hour 1: Why PI and the Players involved, as well as the documentation nuances and missteps for insurers, patients and attorneys.

Hour 2: The documentation and missteps for chiropractors in personal injury, as well as the new documentation mandate of the No Surprises Act. Also how personal injury can be a win-win.