Chiropractic Billing in South Carolina

Yes. Medicaid runs as Healthy Connections, delivered largely through commercial managed care plans. So most South Carolina Medicaid claims are adjudicated by an insurer with its own filing window, its own authorization rules, and its own appeal path — not by the state. Nationally about 78% of Medicaid beneficiaries sit in comprehensive managed care, and five companies hold roughly half of that enrollment.

Palmetto GBA (JM). That contractor adjudicates Medicare claims for South Carolina providers, publishes the local coverage determinations that bind you, and hears the first level of appeal. An argument that works with them works across every state they cover.

The specialty causes first: care characterized as maintenance rather than active treatment; missing initial evaluation supporting necessity; auto claims billed to the health plan first. On top of those, South Carolina Medicaid runs through commercial plans, so filing windows and authorization rules vary by plan rather than by program.

South Carolina is a tort state for auto injuries, so standard coordination of benefits applies rather than an auto carrier taking first position. The injury still has to be identified at registration, because liability coverage may be primary for the related care.

A percentage of collections, banded by practice size, with a monthly minimum so a smaller practice is served properly rather than quoted a rate that does not cover the work. The South Carolina rate card is on the state page.

Yes. All coding is performed by certified coders credentialed through the AAPC or AHIMA, working from the documentation you provide. Active treatment versus maintenance care — the distinction every review examines and the record has to make.