
Medicare and Chiropractic Care: Document, Document, Document!
In 2018, the Comprehensive Error Testing Program (CERT) that measures improper payments in the Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) program reported a 41 percent error rate on claims for chiropractic services. Most of those errors were due to insufficient documentation or other documentation errors. Medicare limits coverage of chiropractic services to treatment by means of manual manipulation (that is, by use of the hands) of the spine to correct a subluxation. The patient must req