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Insurance Coverage of Telehealth After the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the fabric of many industries, particularly mental and behavioral health providers and insurance companies. If you will recall, early in the pandemic insurance companies and government payers quickly adapted their policies and payment structures to accommodate the mental and behavioral health industry including waiving deductibles and cost share. As we move farther away from the pandemic the rules to telehealth will change once more. This blog wi
Everything You Need to Know About Timely Filing (Including a List of Timely Filing Limits!)
Timely filing and the timely filing limits that the insurance companies have in place is a top priority to know and to track in your private practice. If you don’t know or understand timely filing then you are in the right place. In this blog we are going to walk you through not only how to find timely filing with insurance along with a table of popular timely filing limits, but we are also going to give you a simple guide about timely filing and the systems that you can use
Renegotiating Rates: Part 2
This blog is the second installment of a two part blog series that covers how you would renegotiate your payment rate with the insurance company. In our first blog we covered a high level process that would help you gain your bearings and find some basic information that you would want to have when starting down the road of renegotiating your rates with insurance. It is important to make sure that when you are renegotiating your rate with insurance that you are reading your c
How to Bill for Longer Couples and Family Therapy Sessions using Add-on Codes
Introduction A question that a lot of providers have is how to bill for longer couple and family therapy sessions. Sometimes these sessions run long and it is normal to desire to get paid for the extended time that you spend seeing these clients. In this guide, we will walk you through the codes that are used, how to use add-on codes, verification of benefits, and reimbursement expectations. Our goal with this guide is to help reduce the learning curve when billing extended s
All About Superbills: A Guide for Mental and Behavioral Health Providers
Superbills are a document given by a provider to a patient for the express purpose of the patient billing the insurance and obtaining payment. Superbills are a popular way for providers to remain out-of-network but still allow patients to utilize the benefits of their insurance. There are some changes to this process with the No Surprises Act, but for the most part the process remains the same. We would like to provide you with the best guide to most effectively utilize super
