For many private practice owners insurance billing is one of the greatest barriers to running a successful private practice. Providers have described sleepless nights, headaches, and tears shed over managing insurance billing. In school, you are taught how to carry out treatment for your patients; you are not taught the intricacies of how to submit claims and the processes you need in your private practice to achieve proper reimbursement.
Insurance Billing Basics: Steps for Therapists to Successfully Take Insurance was written with mental health clinicians in mind. It is meant to give you a thorough understanding of the insurance billing process, and provide you with process ideas that you can incorporate into your practice to accept insurance with confidence while maximizing revenue in your practice.
You will find general definitions to many common terms in insurance billing, see a thorough overview of the billing process from beginning to end, gain an understanding of how each step of the revenue cycle management process can impact the next, and learn how to address specific challenges that many providers face when billing insurance. This is the essential guide that any private practice owner who is planning on accepting insurance should read.