| Chiropractic billing reimbursements for PowerVibe | | | | 97112 - Neuromuscular re-education (must be |
| users. | | | | performed standing or sitting) |
| In order to facilitate reimbursement for exercise on a | | | | If you are using rehabilitation in your facility to improve |
| PowerVibe unit in your facility, we have put together | | | | your patients progress and you bill for these |
| the following billing guidelines: | | | | procedures, implementing the use of the PowerVibe |
| - Integrating Whole Body Vibration via a PowerVibe | | | | will be a very useful therapy tool. |
| unit into the chiropractic practice is an easy shoe-in. | | | | Below are some helpful hints for correct billing for this |
| This therapy equipment has been used to rehabilitate | | | | therapy. |
| athletes over the last 40 years! It speeds up the | | | | - When a patient is doing his/her rehab exercises while |
| healing by increasing the blood supply in the injured | | | | on a PowerVibe in conjunction with Chiropractic |
| area, increases lymphatic drainage, and stimulates the | | | | Manipulative Therapy(CMT) on any given treatment |
| proprioceptive response and builds strength and | | | | day, please make sure that your diagnoses reflect the |
| flexibility without straining the injured tissues! | | | | need for CMT as well as exercise; |
| - When rehabilitative exercises are performed while | | | | - On the HICFA forms, you must point the spinal |
| weight-bearing on a vibration platform, beneficial | | | | diagnosis to the spinal manipulation therapy and then |
| effects of either modality are enhanced. Patients | | | | point the exercise portion of your procedural codes to |
| recuperate faster and feel better sooner! | | | | the soft tissue, extremity or injury diagnosis. |
| As patients are still doing their specific exercises for | | | | - Only then can the insurance carrier recognize and |
| their condition, now just on a vibrating platform, the | | | | then reimburse the right $ for each procedure done. |
| codes to use for this service remain the same and are | | | | Otherwise your charge for the exercise portion will be |
| still: | | | | bundled with the manipulation charge and therefore |
| 97110 - Therapeutic exercise to develop strength, | | | | denied. |
| endurance, ROM and flexibility | | | | |