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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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Therapist's Guide to the Billing Process (Stages of RCM)

Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is the technical process that billing companies use to do their work. Understanding stages of RCM or the billing cycle is a helpful place to start when evaluating your systems and processes or deciding if you need to outsource your billing to a company. In this particular post, we will walk you through a general overview of the stages of RCM and some critical actions that need to be taken during each stage of the process. It is important to note

Common Insurance Terms and Acronyms

One of the biggest hurdles to insurance billing is learning the lingo. It can feel like a different language! Not to mention the heavy use of acronyms for everything. Consider this your beginners dictionary for learning the language of insurance billing. We’ll start with interpreting the acronyms, and then we’ll move into definitions for each What do the acronyms mean? This list is not exhaustive, but it covers a lot of the most common acronyms in insurance billing. Here we h

3 Ways to Streamline the Prior Authorization Process

One process that always seems ripe for improvement is the prior authorization process. In this blog we are going to walk you through the prior authorization process, highlight some key statistics around what you can expect, and give you some pointers on how to improve this process within your practice. Prior authorization is the process where a provider seeks payment approval for a service prior to seeing the client or patient. There are some procedures within the mental heal

Primary and Secondary Insurances

As a mental health clinician accepting insurance payments from your patients, you may come across some clients who have two insurances. You will need to work with your patient to identify which insurance is primary, and which insurance is secondary in order for insurance claims to process properly for that patient. The better the information that you have, the more likely you are to be paid for those sessions in a timely manner! What’s the difference between Primary and Secon