Billing Breakthroughs
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsClaims, copays, clearinghouses, oh my! Join Sage, a Billing Specialist from TheraNest, as she explains the insurance billing cycle and covers a wide range of topics related to medical billing in the mental health industry. If you are a therapist, mental health practice manager, or medical biller who’s ever had questions about insurance billing, this is the podcast for you.
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Episodes
Episode 12: Mental Health CPT Codes
April 27, 2020 00:00 - 9 minutes - 6.82 MBIn this episode, Sage explains the details of CPT coding. Listen to understand common mental health CPT codes and how to bill them properly.
Episode 11: COVID-19 and Telehealth
March 19, 2020 17:00 - 7 minutes - 5.04 MBIn this episode, Sage will discuss how telehealth works as the perfect solution for delivering care to clients during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Episode 10: Surviving Deductible Season
March 03, 2020 16:00 - 9 minutes - 6.85 MBIn this episode, Sage explains what deductibles season is, how it affects income for private practices, and what practices can do to avoid income delays during this time.
Episode 9: Billing Service Options
January 27, 2020 18:00 - 11 minutes - 8.2 MBIn this episode, Sage explains why working with an integrated billing solution will supercharge your practice’s billing cycle.
Episode 8: Encouraging Client Payment
December 18, 2019 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.53 MBIn this episode, Sage goes through steps mental health clinicians can take to encourage their clients to pay their bills for their therapy sessions in a timely manner.
Episode 7: Overcoming Private Practice Anxiety with Carol Park
November 13, 2019 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.27 MBIn this episode, Sage invites private practitioner and entrepreneur Carol Park to discuss how therapists can handle the stress and anxieties that come with managing a mental health private practice.
Episode 6: Secondary Insurance
October 16, 2019 13:00 - 7 minutes - 5.13 MBIn this episode, Sage explains the ins and outs secondary insurance and gives listeners some tips and tricks on submitting secondary claims.
Episode 5: Billing for Telehealth
August 28, 2019 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.06 MBIn this episode, Sage discusses the rise of Telehealth for mental health services and explains the state policies, insurance requirements, and other particularities of billing for Telehealth sessions.
Episode 4: Common Clearinghouse Rejections
July 31, 2019 17:00 - 11 minutes - 7.98 MBIn this episode, Sage discusses common clearinghouse claim rejections and gives tips on how listeners can fix claim rejections that come their way and avoid these rejections moving forward.
Episode 2: Copays and Deductibles
June 28, 2019 20:00 - 10 minutes - 7.53 MBIn this episode, Sage explains the intricacies of deductibles, copays and coinsurances, and answers questions on how these cost sharing components factor into the insurance billing cycle.
Episode 3: CMS 1500
June 28, 2019 20:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBIn this episode, Sage explains the CMS 1500 claim form, goes into detail on each box of the form, and gives tips on how listeners can enter this information into their EHR system successfully to avoid claim rejections.
Episode 1: Overview of Billing Cycles
June 11, 2019 17:00 - 13 minutes - 9.06 MBIn this episode, Sage takes listeners on a tour of the entire insurance billing cycle from claim creation to payment received, and dives into the details for each step of the cycle including CPT codes, EDI files, clearinghouses, and ERA payments.