Parker College of Chiropractic
Academics - Business Courses
Parker College of Chiropractic offers all chiropractic students a variety of business courses to help graduates succeed in their clinics.
Business Principles 1
Course Description:
Parker College of Chiropractic's Business Principles 1 business course covers an introduction to chiropractic business procedure, portions of healthcare law including ethics, certain misconduct, and patient confidentiality and business issues vital to first trimester students such as defining a business mission, creating a budget, and understanding personal credit.
Goals for Parker Student Learning:
- Judge effective chiropractic business procedures demonstrated via lecture and group discussion.
- Present relevant health care laws and guidelines concerning ethics, patient privacy, and clinical misconduct to appropriate level of awareness.
- Develop a business mission statement through study of personal purpose, benefits of service, behavioristics, and pyschographics.
- Organize budgeting and accumulation strategies to generate assets for future practice.
- Interpret personal credit scores and measure need/method for improvement as necessary.
Topics for Business Principles 1 :
- Telephone Procedure, Insurance Verification
- New Patient First Visit
- Report of Findings
- Progress and Update Procedure
- Ethics
- Patient Confidentiality
- Misconduct Issues
- Defining Your Practice
- Student Budgeting
- Understanding Credit
Functional Assessment Protocols
Course Description:
Parker College of Chiropractic's Functional Assessment Protocols business course is designed to teach Parker patient assessment procedure which is organized in regional format and sensitive for the relationships between spine and frame asymmetry and relative pain, dysfunction, degeneration, disorder, and well-being in the body. Functional Assessment Protocols utilizes evaluation skills such as posture inspection, soft tissue mobility, palpation, range of motion, manual muscle strength, and fundamental movement assessments to teach proper implementation of skills necessary for clinic entrance, internship, and private practice. This course provides the examination foundation necessary for the treatment planning and billing information in Business Principles 2.
Goals for Parker Student Learning:
- Decide effective exam procedure and documentation.
- Present exam technique in a critical thinking format that incorporates diagnostic thought on source, cause, and association.
- Interpret exam criteria for short, moderate, and long-term diagnoses.
- Organize diagnostic and treatment strategies to generate successful patient-centered-care.
Topics for Functional Assessment Protocols:
- Exam process Overview
- Posture Inspection
- Regional Palpation and PART Assessment
- Soft Tissue Mobility: Evaluating Muscular Imbalance
- Range of Motion Measurements
- Fundamental Movement Analysis
- Regional Application of Exam Protocol
- Neck &Shoulders
- Trunk (T & L-sp)
- Pelvis & Hip
- Shoulder
- Post Adjustment Patient-Centered Treatment Application
- Post Isometric Relaxation
- Eccentric Contraction Exercise
- Transversus Abdominis Activation
- Spinal Stabilization Exercise
- Therapeutic Exercise & Activity to Enhance Performance
Business Principles 2
Course Description:
Parker College of Chiropractic's Business Principles 2 covers healthcare commerce, insurance business, case management, coding, and documentation procedures related to treatment planning and patient financial reporting (billing).
Goals for Parker Student Learning:
- Organize the steps to diagnose symptom and elective-based presentations to identify proper category, phase of healing, severity level, coding, and utilization.
- Devise systems to create a transparent and defendable treatment plan.
- Plan specifics for documentation of care estimates, ABN, and NEMB.
- Create a balanced fee schedule that coordinates elective and symptom-based care.
Topics Business Principles 2:
- Introduction to health insurance business
- Understanding case management for categorizing patients
- Understanding case management for determining severity level
- Understanding case management for passive utilization
- Understanding case management for ICD-9/10 organization
- Understanding case management for CPT and ABC application
- Treatment plan documentationÂ
- Financial report documentation
- Case study application
Practice Management & Marketing
Course Description:
Parker College of Chiropractic's Practice Management & Marketing business course covers information necessary to begin a career in the chiropractic profession through proven practice building steps.
Goals for Parker Student Learning:
- Analyze patient types, specific needs, develop patient-centered service and identify specific corresponding patient sources.
- Learn components of a business plan.
- Create a specific advertising calendar action based on market analysis.
- Manage performance and implement corrective action through statistical analysis.
- Implement appropriate decision-making models.
- Understand how to process patient flow and scheduling.
- Develop thorough and efficient record-keeping procedures.
Topics for Practice Management & Marketing:
- Defining Your Practice
- Identifying and Analyzing Types of Patients
- Financial Analysis for the New Practice
- Location Analysis, Space Layout, and Design
- Choosing a Business Model
- SWOT Analysis for Practice Management
- Advertising: Connecting with Your Market
- New Practice Checklist: Things to Do from Graduation to Grand Opening
- Introduction to Medicare: Registration, Record Keeping, Claim Submission, Coding, Risk Management
- Claims Commerce
- Setting Your Fee Schedule
- Components of Thorough Record Keeping