Justification for X-Ray
Finally! A quick 2-hour summary for doctors of how to justify x-ray and handle your “medical necessity” requirements. All you need to know about standard medical justification guidelines and additional unique chiropractic guidelines, decision making and charting, consents, and how x-ray quality factors into these decisions and lowers malpractice risk. Includes a discussion of the need for x-ray in chiropractic practice.
- Laws and standards related to imaging
- Medical necessity
- Decision-making and charting
- Benefit vs risk
- Imaging responsibilities for DCs
- Requirements
- X-Ray Quality
- Consents: Simple vs. Informed, including possible pregnancy
- How image quality issues can affect detection of conditions
- Manual manipulation and the need for X-Ray