If you’re running an addiction treatment center, IOP program or any type of behavioral health concern in Pennsylvania, you know that addiction treatment billing in Pennsylvania is anything but straightforward.
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How to Get the Top 10 Insurance Companies to Cover Care for Your Patients
Working with the top insurance providers in the country is an important part of running an addiction treatment business. Each company handles their billing differently.
Slowly building relationships with employees at each company over time is the “gold standard” approach for managing tricky claims and other sticky billing issues with the top 10 insurance companies for addiction treatment.
Should Your Addiction Treatment Center Accept Public Payers like Medicaid and Medicare?
About 12% of patients with Medicaid insurance have a substance abuse problem.
If your center isn’t accepting public payer plans—like Medicaid and Medicare—then you’re missing out on a massive pool of potential patients. Still, many centers decide to pass on public payer insurance and only accept private insurance and self-pay patients—and for good reason.
The 5 Big KPIs You Need to be Tracking For Addiction Treatment Billing
How Verification of Benefits (VOBs) Can Make or Break Your Addiction Treatment Center
“Playing nice” with insurance companies is one of your most important jobs as an addiction treatment provider. Organizations that master the art of interacting with insurance providers reap major rewards in terms of happy patients, strong revenue cycles, confident clinicians, and flawless documentation. Organizations that struggle with “insurance speak” grapple with angry patients, poor cash flow, unmet patient responsibility payments, and wary clinical staff.
Stop Struggling With Addiction Treatment Utilization Reviews in 4 Easy Steps
Getting insurance companies to fairly reimburse for services rendered is one of the biggest struggles for many addiction treatment providers today. Between an initial verification of benefits, pre-authorizations, concurrent reviews, and even retrospective reviews, it’s easy to get lost in the insurance authorization labyrinth and spend a lot of your organization's time (and money!) fighting with insurance companies.
4 Ways to Improve Your Behavioral Health Center's SOAP Notes Today
SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) notes have been the cornerstone of medical documentation since Lawrence Reed introduced the “Problem Oriented Medical Record” in the 1950’s. Before the dawn of SOAP notes, medical practitioners of Reed’s time had no standardized method of record-keeping. Instead, each provider would scribble notes in their own fashion, making insurance reimbursement, coordinated care, and chart review difficult and time-consuming.
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