Here is what you need to know about HIPAA and how it applies to how you bill for your mental health services.

Collect from your patients at the time of service and while they are in your office. Set up EFT for the insurance companies that you are in-network

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• Set up Electronic Funds Transfer with your insurance companies to make sure that you are getting payments directly 
   

• Complete Eligibility and Benefits checks so you know what the patient owes and what the insurance company owes
   

• Know your C...

Main Points Timely filing is when an insurance company put a time limit on claim submission

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• Collecting all the information you need from your patients will help you to keep accurate records and collect from them what you need to
   

• Patient demographic information is the first step to successful reimbursement
   

• Patient demographic inf...

Main Points: The idea of individual vs group health plans came from how the insurance industry and healthcare changed over time...

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Walk through the instructions for UHC's appeal process very carefully. They have specific instructions that must be followed, or the appeal won't go through

Using the online portal, Link, will process much faster and you can get a higher volume of claims reso...

In order to successfully bill insurance in your private practice, you will need to coordinate these aspects of private practice...

In this issue of billing news and trends, we look at how insurance products may change in 2020, what patients will do in Arkansas when a clinic shuts down and

Credentialing is the single biggest reason that prevents therapists from getting paid. Whether credentialing is incomplete or in process, this could impact your money