As we near the end of 2025, now is a good time to reflect on the past 10 months and plan for the coming new year. This is critical not only for your practice health, but also your personal health.
Step 1: Reflecting on 2025
Step 2: Planning for 2026
The past is the past. What you did, you did; and what you didn’t do, you didn’t do. There’s nothing you can do to change what’s already happened, whether in 2025 or previous years. But with a little initiative, you can make 2026 so much better.
Add Products / Services
Now is the best time to invest in your practice if you want to have greater success next year. Maybe you want to add new services and/or products to your practice. Many companies, especially those selling equipment, will offer incentives at the end of the year.
If you’re looking to add laser care, custom orthotics, modalities, a new table, etc., this may be the best time to buy. Spending money before the end of the year can also reduce your tax burden for 2025 and kick-start a better 2026.
Reimagine Your Practice
Are there aspects of your clinic that need to be reworked? Could you be more efficient with your time and your staff’s time? How about investing in some marketing to cultivate more new patients?
Walk in the front door of your office early one morning before anyone else arrives and act like you’re a new patient. Are you happy with the impression your clinic makes? What should you consider changing? How does your patient experience make you want to refer others?
Don’t Overlook You
We are blessed with only 24 hours in a day and only so many years of life. Are you spending enough time with your loved ones? How are you doing on your bucket list? (You don’t have to be old to make a list – or start fulfilling it.) Is professional growth still on your agenda?
As the saying goes, “Life moves pretty fast.” Take some time this week to consider how you can improve your professional and personal life. You may need to quit some habits and begin new ones.
As Henry Ford noted: “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
It’s time to make some changes if you want a better life than you lived this year. Be courageous. Mold your future practice – and your future life – into more of what you want.
Recent laws in New Jersey and California represent a disturbing trend that will negatively impact a practice’s ability to collect monies from patients, as well as expose them to significant penalties if the practice does not follow the mandatory guidelines to a T. Please be aware that a similar law may be coming to your state. The time to act is before the law is passed.
With estimates showing over 30 million Americans affected by peripheral neuropathy – and a significant portion underdiagnosed – it’s increasingly likely that chiropractors are already treating these patients. What’s missing is structured recognition, comprehensive management and targeted tools to slow progression, improve function and support systemic health.
Each year, ICD-10-CM is updated on Oct. 1. For 2026, there are 74,179 total codes, with 487 additions, 28 deletions and 38 revisions. Code changes are based on date of service, not the claim submission date. Services performed on/after Oct. 1 must use the new codes. While no changes affect the common spinal or extraspinal codes most frequently used by DCs, several updates may still affect your claims – particularly for comorbidities, referred pain, or trauma cases.
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