Jeff Langmaid advises chiropractors to collect primary care provider (PCP) information from every new patient via the intake form. He argues failing to collect this creates "negative equity"—you cannot send case notes, co-manage effectively, or know which providers your patients commonly see. Collecting PCP info empowers communication, enables sending case notes, and helps track frequent co-management relationships.
So KU in here collects the primary care information on their new patients that come in. Cool. My goal is that 100% of the hands go up someday by the time I retire. So you should be doing it for every single patient. If you don't collect that information upfront you have negative equity that compounds. You can't send a case note. Where would you send it to? You have no idea who you're co managing with and you really can't communicate. You're blind to the information and the data. That's not a good place to be. Bottom line is ask your patients. So what do I mean by that? Have it on your intake form. When you collect this information it empowers you. You can then send case notes as we'll talk about. You can have conversations. You can know who is popular with your patients now these are the people that you're comanaging with more often than the others. Important to know. So have it as an option on your intake form.
