The following guide aims to teach mental health practitioners what is “search engine optimization” and how it can grow their presence online. SEO, SEM, PPC, ABC, XYZ, are all acronyms that normally cause our eyeballs to roll to the backs of our heads, whereupon immediate snoring commences. The truth is, acronyms are dumb but Search Engine […]
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Understanding Mental Health Insurance: Part 7 – The 5 Best Practices for Insurance Billing
In this guide by TheraThink, you’ll learn the five mental health insurance billing best practices that will help you prevent denials, stay organized, and maximize your reimbursements. Insurance billing is dreadful, let’s be honest. With many colleagues dropping out of taking insurance from patients, and the reimbursement rates often saying static, there is growing pressure […]
Understanding Mental Health Insurance: Part 6 – Mental Health Diagnosis Codes
We’ve developed a short and sweet application for help you find the correct mental health diagnosis code for your claims. ==>Click Here To Head To The 2014 ICD9 Mental Health Diagnosis Code Finder<==
Guide to Mental Health Insurance Co-Payments, Co-Insurance, and Deductibles
This guide hopes to exhaust your understanding of co-payments, co-insurance, and deductibles for mental health insurance claims in as few of words as possible. Many of us may argue about the sexiness of understanding behavioral health copayment lingo, it does impact enormous amounts of people every day, both as patients and as providers. This topic becomes […]
Mental Health CPT Code Cheat Sheet [2024]
Download your free Mental Health CPT Code Cheat Sheet created by TheraThink, a mental health insurance billing service. CPT is an acronym for Current Procedural Terminology and a CPT code is a 5-digit number code signifying the types of services you’re providing as a health service provider. Our behavioral health CPT code cheat sheet gives […]
Understanding Mental Health Insurance: Part 2 – How to Read Mental Health EOBs (Explanation of Benefits)
This short video screencast will use real explanation of benefit documents to reveal how to read and understand mental health EOBs. You keep getting them in the mail and they might as well be written in hieroglyphics. Mental health EOBs aren’t actually overly complex, they just require knowing how the math works out. Watch our […]
Understanding Mental Health Insurance: Part 1 – Understanding Policy Types
This guide will help mental health therapists and behavioral health practitioners understand the different types of benefits and coverage new patients have, if they will be paid, and what steps are required to ensure payment. The Confusing Mess of Insurance Policies HMO, PPO, EAP, EPO, In-network, Out-of-network, contracted and subcontracted insurance.. Mental health insurance policies […]
How to Negotiate a Raise with Mental Health Insurance Panels
Getting a Raise This private practice business guide will teach mental health practioners how to negotiate a raise and increase their income with behavioral health insurance panels. If you are not on insurance panels, learn how to apply and get accepted here. Like with any job, employees who over-preform for their company deserve higher wages. […]
Mental Health Insurance Credentialing: Case Study
Watch the live video case-study below that shows you How to Find Mental Health Insurance Panels and apply for Cigna Behavioral Health (and other insurance panels too). You can also review our text-guide for How to Get Contracted with Insurance Companies for Mental Health Providers which will walk you through what behavioral health insurance panels want […]
How to Get Contracted with Insurance Companies for Mental Health Providers
Insurance Credentialing for Mental Health Therapists The following guide explains how to apply to insurance panels as a mental health practitioner and how to get contracted with behavioral health insurance companies. Please contact us about your results using this guide! Introduction With a larger supply of therapists today than ever before, learning how to get on mental […]