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December 30, 2024 Membership Policy & Procedure Handbook Update
Here is the link to the January 1, 2025 Edition of the Members Policy and Procedure Handbook. Below we have outlined changes and additions or deletions to our policy handbook since the November 7, 2024 Edition. All of the changes in these policies are policy amendments which were approved at the November 7, 2024 Board of Directors Meeting. All Policy changes contained within this edition of the member handbook will come into effect Wednesday January 1, 2025. The Board has made amendments to the following policies: Membership Requirement – Continuing Education Credits Policy Added clarification to item 6 about the [...]
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What You Need to Know About Health Insurance Fraud
We want to share some valuable resources that are provided free of charge by the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA) surrounding Health Insurance Fraud, and things that you can incorporate into your practice, or when you are on the job hunt for a new professional opportunity, to help prevent Health Insurance Fraud. The first resource is entitled How Healthcare Providers Can Protect Themselves from Identity Theft (click here). This is a great resource that will give you tools to protect your professional identity. The second resource is an entire website dedicated to healthcare fraud prevention and awareness – Fraud [...]
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Membership Number Protection and Fraud Awareness
Your CMMOTA membership number is that thing which identifies you as a legitimate therapist to the various Health Care Insurance companies. When it is included on a receipt it provides the companies with the information that they need to reimburse your client. Protecting that number is incredibly important, as it may be used in a fraudulent way should it fall into scrupulous hands. So how do you protect your number? First, make sure that you do not use your number in any advertising. Don’t post it on Facebook, or other social media accounts. Don’t put it on your business cards. Don’t [...]
Submit Your Continuing Education Certificates ‘Cause It’s Important!
Do you have continuing education certificates that you have never submitted to the Association? We want to make you aware that it is incredibly important to provide all your continuing education certificates to us even if you do not need the Continuing Education Credits. Why? The reason why it is important, is because it triggers getting those courses being sent to the insurer for approval/recognition, which in turn, if the course is accepted as sufficient to allow you to practice a modality, then that modality can be added to your insurance dossier. Without having prior approval from the professional liability insurance [...]
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December 2, 2024 Membership Policy & Procedure Handbook Update
DECEMBER 2, 2024 MEMBERS POLICY AND PROCEDURE HANDBOOK UPDATE Here is the link to the November 7, 2024 Edition of the Members Policy and Procedure Handbook Below we have outlined changes and additions or deletions to our policy handbook since the September 20, 2024 Edition. All of the changes in these policies are policy amendments or new policy additions which were approved at the November 7, 2024 Board of Directors Meeting. All Policy changes contained within this edition of the member handbook will come into effect today, December 2, 2024. The Board has adopted the following Associations Documents: CMMOTA Code of [...]
Find-A-Therapist – Are You Listed
Over the last couple of months if you have been surfing Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn you have likely noticed an image like this pop up on your screen? Did you know that as an Association we actively promote the CMMOTA Find-A-Therapist page? We do – in fact in the first 9 months of 2024 more than 36000 people on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn have viewed a post like this. The question is – can those who then click through to the website find your information? The answer is “that depends”. We know that there are some members that want their business [...]
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The Importance of Documentation
It is the professional responsibility of all massage or manual osteopathic therapists to maintain client records for at least 10 years after the client’s last treatment, longer if the client was a minor at the time of their last treatment. CMMOTA has written policy on what client records are to include, and the time frame in which treatment notes are to be completed by the therapist. These are contained in CMMOTA’s Client Records, Charting, and Treatment Notes Policy. Failure to maintain proper client records is considered to be professional misconduct and would result in disciplinary action if discovered and reported. [...]
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