The New ICD-10 Codes for Mental Health & Deletion of Prolonged Services Codes: What This Means for You
The new ICD-10 codes for mental health are coming into effect in 2023, but what do they mean for you?
Insurance Billing
CPT 90837 Modifier 95: What Is this Exactly?
Billing codes can be very frustrating for most mental health practitioners. At times, it can even feel like a foreign language you can’t understand, no matter how hard you try. With everything going on in your professional and personal life, the last thing you want to do is spend countless hours trying to figure out …
How Do You Bill for EMDR? Everything You Need To Know
As practicing mental health professionals, we have many tools that we can use to help treat a client. There are also many CPT codes that you can use, depending on the session type. When you are in a talk therapy session involving a specific treatment method such as CBT, EFT, or EMDR, you may feel …
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How to Make Sure Your Progress Notes Meet Medical Necessity
So, here are a couple of truths about getting reimbursed by insurance: You must prove that your services were “medically necessary” to get paid. Medical necessity can be frustratingly subjective and open to interpretation. With those in mind, your odyssey into capably and confidently billing insurance for your private practice continues. When you grasp how …
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What Does It Mean For A Therapist To Be Paneled?
Being a private practice owner can be as challenging as it is rewarding. On the one hand, you get to do what you are passionate about—helping people through the issues they are facing. On the other, you have to navigate the murky waters of billing and insurance.
Secondary Billing: How Do I Do It?
Perhaps you’re wondering what to do when you have a balance remaining after you submit a claim to your client’s primary insurance provider? Are you clear on the difference between primary and secondary insurance? Essentially, if your client has secondary insurance, you submit a claim there for the remaining funds. So, how exactly- and correctly- …
What to Know About the Newly Required ICD-11 Codes
Is your practice fully remote? If it is, you are living the dream. You provide valuable mental healthcare from home, your hotel room, from anywhere.
Insurance Billing In Private Practice: What Are My Options?
Is your practice fully remote? If it is, you are living the dream. You provide valuable mental healthcare from home, your hotel room, from anywhere.
Working Online and Traveling the World, But How Do I Bill for Telehealth? 4 Easy Steps.
Is your practice fully remote? If it is, you are living the dream. You provide valuable mental healthcare from home, your hotel room, from anywhere.
New POS Code 10: Insurance Billing for Telehealth!
The pandemic has changed us all in ways that are too numerous to count. This is the case in the therapy billing world too. In a previous post, we discussed how much location matters when billing telehealth services.
Running My Private Practice: Do I Need A Virtual Assistant?
Do you Need A Virtual Assistant? Do you need help answering the phones for your practice? Are there stacks of to-dos, half-attempted forms, and emails that need to be blasted? But you know you just don’t have the time?
How is Group Therapy Billed? Everything You Need to Know
Do you offer group therapy sessions that deal with distinct mental health concerns, skills, and solutions for issues like anxiety, depression, grief, substance abuse, etc? Are you confused about how to bill for it?