The Strategic Chiropractor is a consulting firm founded by Dr. Tom Necela to fill a void by teaching principles of the “business side” of chiropractic in respect to proper billing, coding, documentation, and collections along with sound business management strategies.
While most chiropractic practice management groups and chiropractic coaching programs teach “front end” techniques in the form of marketing ideas, scripts, and cookie-cutter patient education information, we take a different approach and focus on “back end” strategies that improve your bottom line. Our rational for doing so is simple: chiropractic college taught us to be good clinicians; with some elbow grease and time, we can acquire patients. But unless we can get paid for what we do and create a profitable business, we fail to succeed as entrepreneurs or worse, we are force to close our chiropractic clinic doors.
In this way, The Strategic Chiropractor’s seminars, products, blogs, articles and consulting all focus around business strategies to teach chiropractors how to maximize income and to minimize audit risk. Most of our consulting clients have a good practice they want to turn into a great one. However, with chiropractic audits and post-payment demands becoming much more common, the wise practitioner also realizes that protecting their practice from audit risk is necessary.
We like to call this two-fold focus of maximizing income and minimizing audit risk “working SMARTER, not harder”
As a practicing chiropractor and a former Insurance Claims Analyst. Dr. Necela possesses unique qualifications and experience to help chiropractors achieve this. Dr. Necela is also a Certified Professional Coder, a member of the American Medical Billers Association, the Health Care Compliance Association and the Association for Health Care Auditors and Educators.
In 2009, Dr. Necela also became the first chiropractor to ever to achieve Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CPMA) status as offered by the American Academy of Professional Coders and National Alliance of Medical Auditing Specialists. The CPMA program is the only certified curriculum that teaches coding and insurance professionals how to audit and document medical charts according to CPT guidelines developed by the AMA and Medicare’s 1995 and 1997 E/M Guidelines.
In addition to consulting and private practice, Dr. Necela is a popular speaker that lectures nationally on strategies for proper chiropractic billing, coding, documentation, collections and sound business management. He is a contributing writer to Dynamic Chiropractic and Practice Insights magazines, a contributing editor to the ChiroCode Deskbook and ChiroCode’s Hot Topics Newsletter, and author of numerous books and audio products that serve the chiropractic profession.
Below are a few of the State Associations and groups for which Dr. Necela has spoken or published articles:
