{"id":6269,"date":"2022-01-03T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/?p=6269"},"modified":"2022-01-03T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T17:00:08","slug":"no-surprises-act-effective-january-1-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/no-surprises-act-effective-january-1-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Surprises Act&#8221; effective January 1, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6270 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/financial-consulting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/financial-consulting.jpg 474w, https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/financial-consulting-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/financial-consulting-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wondering about the new federal ruling to end surprise patient billing?<\/p>\n<p>Though this mainly pertains to hospitals and emergency services, chiropractic\u00a0 providers are impacted as well.\u00a0 Click here to see\u00a0 Medicare&#8217;s explanation on the ruling. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/nosurprises\/consumers\/understanding-costs-in-advance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/nosurprises\/consumers\/understanding-costs-in-advance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For over 35 years, Petty, Michel and Associates has been at the forefront of educating doctors and staff on utilizing financial consultations and worksheets to estimate out a patient&#8217;s out-of-pocket financial responsibility for their care.\u00a0 If you are interested in how you can obtain our <a href=\"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/chiropractic-practice-management-tools\/financial-consultation-toolkit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial Consultations Toolkit<\/a>,\u00a0 please contact Lisa at <a href=\"mailto:lisa@pmaworks.com\">lisa@pmaworks.com<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lisa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Wondering about the new federal ruling to end surprise patient billing? Though this mainly pertains to hospitals and emergency services, chiropractic\u00a0 providers are impacted as well.\u00a0 Click here to see\u00a0 Medicare&#8217;s explanation on the ruling. https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/nosurprises\/consumers\/understanding-costs-in-advance For over 35 years, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/no-surprises-act-effective-january-1-2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[569,23,568,66,377,367],"class_list":["post-6269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chiropractic-reimbursement-insurance","tag-financial","tag-insurance","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-michel","tag-petty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6271,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}