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Insurance Billing and Credentialing is complex. At Practice Solutions, we aim to provide information that helps you to understand the billing and credentialing process, keeps you up to date on industry news, and provides tips to help your private practice run smoothly. Our mission is to deliver content that allows mental and behavioral health providers to make educated decisions in private practice, and to feel confident in those decisions to achieve success in their practice.

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The Imperfect Nature of Billing

Insurance billing is a complex process. There are several different entities involved in the entire process, multiple submission methods, and constantly evolving regulations and processes for submitting claims. Due to the high level of complexity, there is a lot of room for error. There are many measures that you can take to increase your chances of clean claim processing, yet there is no way to guarantee a 100% success rate. There are however productive ways to deal with the

My Claim Was Rejected. Now What?

A claim rejection is when a claim doesn't actually arrive at the insurance company. A claim rejection occurs when there's a demographic error or an insurance error that the clearing house (the company that operates as an intermediary between the insurance company and your electronic health record company) identifies and lets you know that there is an error with the claim. This kind of screening is known as scrubbing a claim. This is an incredibly important process because it

The Importance of EDI and ERA

You’ve done it; you’ve completed credentialing with an insurance company! You may think that the enrollment paperwork stops here, but along with your insurance contract you receive enrollment paperwork for EDI Claims Submissions, and ERA Receipts. It can feel daunting to have to sit down and fill out yet another form, but in this article we are going to talk about the importance of EDI and ERA, and how it can help your practice in the long run. EDI What is an EDI? EDI stands

Legally Changing Your Name as a Therapist

There are a lot of circumstances in which you would need to change your name as a therapist. You may have started your private practice as a DBA with your name, you may have gotten married, you may have thought of a fancy new title for your practice, or you might have gone through a divorce and need to change your name back. Because of the variety of situations that would call for a name change we wanted to create a blog that would help you think through all the different ite