Unlike other larger insurance companies like United Healthcare or Cigna, the Blue Card Program (BCBS) is a federation of insurance companies rather than one single entity. Collectively over 100 million people are covered under Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, more than any single insurance company. Due to the structure of the federation, Blue Cross Blue […]
Learn everything about CPT Code 90791, billing for psychiatric diagnostic evaluation, also known as a mental health intake session in common parlance. We teach you about authorization requirements, pay rate increases, frequency of billing, CPT Code 90791 documentation requirements and coding requirements, and more. Last updated 2025. Procedure code 90791, along with 90834 and 90837, […]
We wanted to share our “vanilla” mental health intake form PDF template with our community. If you find this page useful, consider sharing it as a resource with a colleague needing help starting their own private practice. If you are sick of dealing with insurance billing or have never considered a life without insurance billing, […]
This short article will help you understand the relationship between Beacon Health Options, Beacon Health Strategies, and Value Options; it will teach you which company to call and when, including phone numbers, as well as help you pick the appropriate payer ID for your claims. In 2015, Beacon Health Strategies and Value Options merged to […]
So you want to figure out what are 2026 insurance reimbursement rates for psychotherapy and mental health services. We can’t blame you. (Skip ahead to see mental health reimbursement rates by CPT code!) Insurance companies are completely unwilling to release their contracted rate information for reason we’ll discuss shortly and as a result, you don’t […]
Calendly.com is a website tool that enables you to create a publicly visible calendar to schedule incoming appointments. We use it to schedule phone calls for mental health providers interested in our services. As a mental health provider, you can use it to schedule new intake sessions, all via embedding something into your website (a […]
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This is a super short guide on billing a typical 2 hour individual therapy session for outpatient mental health therapy. You’ll want to use your typical 90837 CPT code. Then you’ll also want to use the Add On CPT code 99354 which declares an additional 30 to 74 minutes of therapy. So any time you […]
Note: these guidelines no longer apply in 2023/2024 due to changes by the APA and CMA on extended session billing Have you wondered how to bill out therapy sessions that are over a typical 60 minute session? This short article will teach you how to bill 90 minute therapy sessions. 90 Minute Therapy CPT Codes […]
The process is simpler than most would realize. Simply head over to your NPPES account at https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov/ and create an account or login. You can submit an address change request via your account there. This is the most expedient way to make changes so we recommend this method. Alternatively you can use the official form from […]
“As private practitioners, our clinical work alone is full-time. Add in the unnecessarily difficult insurance billing system and we run the risk of working way over full-time. TheraThink provides an affordable and incredibly easy solution. My daily insurance billing time now is less than five minutes for a full day of appointments. My cost is a percentage of what is insurance-approved and it’s my favorite bill to pay each month! Denny and his team are responsive, incredibly easy to work with, and know their stuff. I cannot capture in words the value to me of TheraThink. Thank you. You free me to focus on the work I love!”
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