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EMPLOYMENT TOOLS

Required Employment Law Posters

In operating their practices, doctors of chiropractic wear several hats. In addition to the primary role facilitating the healing of patients, chiropractic doctors are also business people and employers. As those who have employees are aware, voluminous laws and regulations govern the employment relationship. Among those rules is the requirement to post at the practice up to 17 employment-related notices mandated by a plethora of state and federal agencies. Failure to place these notices can lead to fines of up to $10,000.

To assist doctors who are chiropractic employers to meet their employment posting obligations, CCA makes available all 17 employment law posters required to be posted at each practice. All of the posters are offered to CCA members at a significant discount from the retail price and meet applicable state and federal law. The majority of the notices are contained in the Space Saver 1 Poster, a space-saving 26” x 40” full color poster that can be placed horizontally or vertically. All posters are laminated for protection against destruction and environmental conditions and use fade-resistant ink for long wear. They are also available in Spanish. From time-to-time laws are enacted changing the language in the posters. When the language changes, chiropractic doctors will be able to order a laminated replacement poster that can be adhered over the existing notice for a cost savings – doctors do not have to purchase all the posters again.

Click here to obtain the CCA Federal and State Employment Law Posters order form.You may also call 916-648-2727, to place an order.

INSURANCE COVERAGE

CCA is endorses a group personal lines automobile and home insurance program brokered by the Warren G. Bender Company. Now, CCA members can potentially expand their coverage and often reduce their premiums for not only personal autos and homes, but also vacation homes, rental properties, recreational vehicles, boats, golf carts and more. A full-service brokerage founded in 1938, all coverages brokered by the Warren G. Bender Company are underwritten by “A” or better rated carriers. This CCA member exclusive and unique group auto and home insurance program offers many extras:

•  With one phone call, you'll receive a choice of over a dozen top-rated carriers, such as Safeco, Travelers, Fireman's Fund, Kemper, Encompass, Unigard and more. Bender does the shopping for you.

•  Most members will receive lower rates than they can find on their own.

•  The programs are designed to offer broad acceptability.   They fit into your needs; you don't have to fit into theirs. A program is available for virtually every risk.

•  The coverages offered are the most expansive found, covering everything from full building code upgrades to identity theft to auto loan gap coverage and more.

•  Bender proactively alerts you to changes with the carriers and advises if there is a better deal for you at renewal.

•  An insurance carrier cannot, by law, be a counselor for you.   If you call them to ask about the effects of making a claim, they are required to count the claim against you, even if you change your mind about filing it. The insurance counselors at Bender are legally allowed to educate you about the affect a claim will have on your policy - giving you the choice whether to file it or not.

• Under the umbrella of auto and home, Bender can assist you with all of your personal insurance needs, including autos, homes, motorcycles, boats, jet skis, snowmobiles, rental property, vacation homes, golf carts, earthquake, flood and personal umbrellas.

Return on Dues Investment: The following are actual quotes from the CCA Group Personal Auto and Home Insurance Program brokered by the Warren G. Bender Company:

Existing automobile coverage: Coverage for a 2001 sedan and 2003 pickup with a $500 deductible for collision, $250 comprehensive, $5,000 med pay coverage and $250,000/$500,000 liability coverage: $2,600 annual premium.

CCA Group Personal Auto and Home Insurance Program quote:   Same coverage as above: $1,450 annual premium, representing a nearly 150 percent return on CCA annual dues investment.

Existing home coverage: $320,000 structure, $32,000 other structures, $160,000 personal items, $250,000 liability coverage: $900 annual premium.

CCA Group Personal Auto and Home Insurance Program quote:

Option 1 - Same coverage as above: $830 annual premium.

Option 2 – Increase of nearly double existing coverage: $1,080,000 to be used as       needed, i.e., $540,000 structure, $54,000 other structures, $320,000 personal items, $500,000 liability coverage; additional coverages included are sewer backup, mold/fungi protection, full replacement cost: $1,240 annual premium for nearly double the coverage.

Combined auto and home coverage premiums quotes:

Existing coverages for auto and home: $3,500 annual premium

CCA Group Personal Auto and Home Insurance Program : Using Option 1 for home coverage: $2,280 combined annual premium, representing a nearly 150 percent return on CCA annual dues investment.

Using Option 2 for home coverage: $2,690 combined annual premium, representing a 95 percent return on CCA annual dues investment.

Contact the Warren G. Bender Company toll-free at 877-978-8550 to obtain a quote.

MARKETING YOUR PRACTICE

Customized Chiropractic-Specific Web Site for Your Practice

Rapidly vanishing in these technology-driven days are your potential patients running their fingers through the Yellow Pages seeking a doctor of chiropractic or information on maximizing their health. Instead, those fingers are now guiding a mouse in an Internet search for those answers. Capture this fast growing Internet-driven business through the CCA-endorsed chiropractic-specific Web site development services of ChiroMatrix. Two Web site products are offered which feature many extras, including:

•  $avings: Members can have a fully customized, practice-specific Web site developed for $1,495, a savings of $500 from the standard rate, or a semi-customized Web site created for $595, a $100 savings.

•  Patient Communication and Referrals: Keep in regular touch with your patients – and encourage regular visits - with iNewsletter, an electronic communication promoting chiropractic care and general health information. Your patients can forward your practice's newsletter on to others, effectively serving as a source of referrals.

•  Patient Appointment Reminders or that Special Touch: Cut down on costly missed appointments with professionally designed iCards, an appointment reminder feature minus the costs of paper, stamps and labor. Use this tool to take advantage of the little things that go a long way in bolstering doctor-patient relations, such as the sending of electronic birthday or holiday cards.

•  Appointment Scheduling: Cut down on lost business opportunities through the use of iCalendar for 24/7 online appointment scheduling.

•  Patient Forms: Save your patients and your staff time by making available on your Web site patient forms and insurance verifications that can be completed before the patient arrives for his or her appointment (scheduled online).

•  Patient and Public Education: Take advantage of limitless opportunities to provide chiropractic informational resources on preventive care, exercise, diet, explanatory diagrams and illustrations, etc. The Web site also features a 3-D spine simulator.

Under this program, the doctor is the owner of the completed Web site – no leasing, no renting. In addition to the above, for a slight one-time investment, a doctor can feature products and supplements available from the practice to anyone, anytime, anywhere through iStore. ChiroMatrix also provides hosting services with up to 15 e-mail accounts for use by the doctor and his or her staff.

Return on dues investment: Up to nearly a 60 percent return on annual dues investment with $500 savings on Web site development, plus untold new revenues from more frequent patient visits and referrals, plus intangible returns on enhanced doctor-patient relations.

Begin growing your practice now by contacting Jennifer Warner at ChiroMatrix, 800-398-3933, ext. 218 or by logging onto www.chiromatrix.com . Be sure to mention you are a CCA member!

PRACTICE/BUSINESS OPERATIONS

Thousands of chiropractic doctors give away a portion of their profits every month, and they don't realize it's happening. At last, a money-saving credit card processing program designed specifically for CCA members to help you retain those profits.

Chiropractic practices frequently accept credit card payment to help increase cash flow, facilitate supplemental product sales and cut the administrative costs of billing and collection. But is this really a profit-buster? Credit card companies charge businesses a “discount fee” for every payment made by credit card. That means a fixed percentage – as much as 3 percent – of every office charge, every nutritional supplement, every overdue bill paid by credit card simply walks out your door into the bank account of your credit card processing company.

The CCA Credit Card Processing Program offered through exclusive arrangement with NCMIC Finance Corporation, lets your practice retain more of its profits. As a CCA member, you are guaranteed acceptance!

The program features these profit-boosting benefits:

Processing fee rates locked in at 1.69 percent for qualified MasterCard and VISA transactions Lowering of your administrative costs for billing and collections Hassle-free set up handled conveniently over the phone. Free programming of current equipment Round-the-clock service from card processing experts via NCMIC Finance Corporation's toll-free hotline. Call now to boost your bottom line at 800-396-7157, ext. 155.

Discounted Cellular Phone Service

Cellular telephones have become an almost indispensable tool in the professional and personal lives of chiropractic doctors. To assist member doctors in lowering their costs for convenient business tools, CCA has teamed with Wireless Works to provide a guaranteed savings on cellular phone services from the major cellular carriers. There are two from which to choose to begin guaranteed savings on cellular phone bills:

      Option 1: Use your existing cellular phone or purchase a phone from Wireless Works                          at cost. Select a calling plan that best meets your needs and save $10 a

                   month, or $120 a year, off published cellular telephone service plans of $40 or

                   more offered by AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless or Verizon Wireless –

                   guaranteed! Receive one monthly bill for all cellular phone services from

                   Wireless Works. No service contract required.

      Option 2: Obtain a free, high quality cellular telephone provided by Wireless Works                            Select the calling plan best suited to your needs and receive $5 a month, or

                   $60 annually, off published cellular telephone service plans of $40 or more    

                   offered by AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless or Verizon Wireless – guaranteed!

                   Receive one monthly bill from for all cellular phone services from Wireless

                   Works A service contract of up to two years may be necessary.

If needed, technical assistance from Wireless Works' in-house technical department is available six days a week, and customer service for all other inquiries is available on the same basis. And remember, you can switch cellular telephone service carriers without having to change your cell number. There is no charge to keep your existing number.   Just imagine the savings in business cards, notices, etc. by being able to use the carrier of your choice without having to switch your cellular phone number.

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To obtain more information or to sign up for this program, call 877-265-5100.

The New Chiropractic Cash Practice Survival Guide: How to Successfully Start-up or Convert Your Practice, by David E. Abblett, DC, Terry Ann Abblett.

Loaded with timely advice on how to start-up and run a successful cash practice, this book includes guidelines and strategies that are simple, practical, and proven effective. Members save 25 percent!

Click here to obtain the order form. You may also call 916-648-2727, ext. 0 to place an order.

WORKERS' COMPENSATION

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ACOEM Guidelines at an Exclusive Discount  

Since March 2004, the ACOEM guidelines have been rebuttably presumed correct in the treatment of injured worker patients. To assist members doctors who treat injured workers, CCA has negotiated with the publisher an exclusive discount for the ACOEM guidelines.   Doctors treating injured workers will want these newly released guidelines at their fingertips for the following reasons:  

•  Carriers are using the ACOEM guidelines to deny care, citing the reference either generally or a specific portion of a guideline. It is very helpful to know exactly what it says so that you can refute the care denial.

•  The guidelines are about more than how many visits injured worker patients can receive. They set out appropriate diagnostic pathways, criteria necessary to consider a specific diagnosis, as well as various treatment options. Use the wrong criteria and you may not get paid.

•  Failure to understand what the guidelines indicate is reasonable is an almost certain guarantee of not getting paid. To know in advance what is eligible to be reimbursed, the book is needed.

•  You will need to cite alternative literature to overcome some of the biases and shortcomings of the guidelines, but you will be better served, and more likely to prevail, if you can show where the guidelines are dated, or incomplete or make faulty assumptions.

The 516-page manual is at the exclusive low price of $180, plus tax and shipping, totaling $206.88. Click here to obtain an ACOEM Guidelines order form.You may also call 916-648-2727, ext. 0 to place an order.

CLINICAL AIDS

Chiropractic, Health Promotion, and Wellness, by Meridel I. Gatterman, MA, DC, Med.

This 113-page must-have resource provides easy-to-understand, practical information on the ways doctors of chiropractic work as partners with individuals in patient-centered atmospheres to improve wellness, including nutritional, exercise and health behavior counseling. Members save 22 percent!

Click here to obtain the order form. You may also call 916-648-2727, ext. 0 to place an order.

Evidence-Based Chiropractic Practice, by Michael T. Haneline, DC, MPH.

Authored by one of chiropractic's preeminent practitioners of evidence-based protocols, this essential resource covers the procedures involved in the practice of evidence-based chiropractic care, and provides background information necessary for obtaining and interpreting chiropractic evidence, as well as practical examples to assist with implementation and understanding the content of research articles to assist in rendering optimal patient care. Save 30 percent.

Click here to obtain the order form. You may also call 916-648-2727, ext. 0 to place an order.