After several of you asked for more information about whether or not to hire a billing professional, I spoke with Jill Osborne, EDS, LPC in Georgia. She graciously offered to go after some of the answers to your questions by interviewing her favorite billing professional, Barbara Ifill. Below you {...}
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Insurance | Managed Care
How To Disentangle Your Private Practice From Managed Care
Sometimes managed care companies change the terms of their contracts. Most contracts allow either party to terminate the contract without cause i.e. "a material breach of a contract term" at their discretion. Sometimes a therapist's finances change such that s/he needs to resign from a provider {...}
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How To Avoid Collection Agencies When Your Clients Owe You Money
Last year I was hanging out on LinkedIn when I noticed a therapist had started a thread of discussion on using collections agencies to recover money owed by a client. The therapist was asking for other mental health professionals' experiences and opinions.
My colleague and e-friend, Jay Ostrowski, {...}
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How to Get Mind-Body Tools Reimbursed By Insurance Companies
In addition to being licensed as a Professional Counselor, I am also a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist so it should not surprise you to know that I was reading Belleruth Naparstek's blog, Health Journeys today and stumbled across an excellent post she wrote (back in August) on getting {...}
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