It seems as if low-dose Ketamine has a temporary but powerful ability to inhibit suicidal thoughts in at-risk, deeply depressed patients. Yet the lasting effects of this new “wonder drug” for depression are temporary, with relapse occurring with one week. Perhaps this may be a new, powerful intervention to help patients who are on the […]
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United Health Care 90837 vs 90834 Requirements for Mental Health Billing
Quickly learn how to make sure your individual psychotherapy sessions get paid with United Health Care 90837 CPT code. United Health Care, Optum, and United Behavioral Health (UBH) have set limits for CPT code 90837 used by mental health outpatient providers. CPT code 90837 represents a 60 minute individual therapy session and now requires authorization […]
Blue Cross Blue Shield Out of State Plans
Updated Article –> Learn more here Scenario: You are offering services in California to a college student who uses her parent’s insurance from New Hampshire. How do you handle the billing for this case, where an out of state member is seeking mental health services in your state? Here are the important things to ask […]
How to Handle New Mental Health Patients for Insurance Billing
Handling new patients for insurance purposes is easy. Gather The Necessary Information You’ll need: a photocopy of their insurance card (front and back) — we recommend taking a photo with your smart phone all their demographic information (see free intake sheet download below) a signed billing agreement Sign Your Intake & Billing Agreement Use our […]
Switch From Your Current Mental Health Biller
Want to switch right now? Shoot us an email or call immediately to learn more about making the switch: (206) 693 – 4204 We understand that not all billing teams are created equal. Perhaps you’re working with a local, small “mom and pop” biller. He or she is a one-person operation, often overloaded with clients, […]
The Best Times to Call (And Not Call) Insurance Companies [Strategy + Tactics]
Quickly learn the best times to call insurance companies for eligibility and benefits calls, authorizations, and more. We use these principles and tactics within our billing service at TheraThink. This short guide will begin with Strategies to use to guide when to make a call. Then we’ll get down to tactics to use to make […]
A Brief Walkthrough of the TheraThink Billing Portal
Improve Your PsychologyToday Profile to Increase Your New Clients Today
Not quite sure your PsychologyToday profile is performing well? Want to increase your inbound client load? In this short how-to guide, you’ll learn how to optimize, test, and measure the success of your PsychologyToday profile to maximize new client referrals for months to come. As a note, one other way to increase inbound clients is […]
Mental Health CPT Codes: The Definitive Guide [2025]
CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) is a standardized medical codeset maintained by the AMA. CPT codes are five digit numeric codes describing everything from surgery to radiology to psychotherapy. CPT Codes are different from Diagnosis Codes or ICD10 F-Codes for billing and coding your insurance claims. Here’s our mental health diagnosis code list if you need […]
Setup a Google Voice Forwarding Number (And Stop Giving Out Your Personal Cell Number!)
In this video guide, Denny walks budding and established therapists through the process of creating a Google Voice forwarding number. Google Voice is a free service that let’s you register a phone number which automatically sends callers to other phone numbers based on your preferences, specifically the time of day and days of the week. […]