Written by Mackenzie Singleton, FCA Internet Services Coordinator
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
At The FCA, we're always looking for ways to help support and serve you, the Member. This series of articles is intended to showcase the Member Benefits that are available to you as well as additional tips, ideas and more.
The FCA website is one of the most significant Member Benefits. Besides the plethora of online resources and Member discounts available after logging in, there are also important administrative tools such as managing your account, contact info and even tracking your CE.
Today, I want to share a few tips with your regarding your profile, it's possible uses and how it can help you market your own website. Your Find A Doctor directory profile is a very useful tool. In the year period ending May 31st, the Find A Doctor had 33,387 searches!
(Republished from the ACA “Week in Review” of June 3, 2010) The Internal Revenue Service has begun mailing postcards to more than 4 million small businesses and tax-exempt organizations to make them aware of the benefits of the recently enacted small business health care tax credit. The credit, which takes effect this year, is designed to encourage small business employers to offer health insurance coverage for the first time or maintain coverage they already have. In general, the credit is available to small business employers that pay at least half the cost of single coverage for their employees in 2010. Read more here .
The Federal Trade Commission postponed implementation of the Red Flags Rule until January 1, 2011 from June 1, 2010. This is the sixth postponement of the Red Flags Rule’s application to physicians.
Chiropractic physicians are “covered entities” under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued regulations requiring health care providers to notify patients when their health information confidentiality is breached.
Florida licensed chiropractic physicians are prohibited by Florida Statute 460.4167 from working for a practice that they do not own or is not owned by another chiropractor, allopath or osteopath. A chiropractor may work for a clinic owned by non-physicians only if it is licensed as a clinic by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration AND has an allopath or osteopath as the medical director AND offers multidisciplinary services.
