How To Write Progress Notes For ABA Therapists
Tracking a patient’s progress is a critical component of any ABA therapist’s duties. These notes not only ensure that the patient is receiving the most effective treatment options, but progress notes also play an important role in accurate coding and medical billing. Properly composed progress notes provide critical information about the patient or group therapy session. As an ABA therapist, you can also use progress notes as a reference to adjust or modify your treatment strategy as needed. Progress [...]
What is Value-Based Healthcare?
With healthcare costs high and continually on the rise, the medical and mental healthcare industries are making a concerted effort to find ways to ensure that people get the care they need at a reasonable cost. Value-Based Healthcare is one of the newest concepts that are starting to gain serious traction throughout the industry. Though there are some key details to understand before deciding to use it as your practice’s reimbursement model. At its core, the value-based care healthcare [...]
What Is Capitation In ABA Therapy?
Healthcare costs in the United States remain the highest per capita of any nation in the developed world. On the face of it, this is due in large part to the fact that the US medical system has the highest pricing structure and remains one of the newly developed nations in the world that still charges its citizens for health services. To help mitigate these alarming statistics, the United States Federal Government and many private payer health insurance organizations [...]
How To Manage Your ABA Therapy Waitlist
A lot of ABA providers and behavioral therapists find themselves dealing with a significant waitlist. Demand in this area often occurs because there is so much pressing need. Of course, you want to be able to give every potential patient and the families who support their access to your services. Yet a lot of ABA therapists find that they simply do not have enough available hours to provide service to the people requesting them. With a limited number of [...]
How To Handle Unlisted Codes To Prevent Denials
The healthcare industry continues to evolve with new services, care devices, medications, and treatment techniques being developed each day. These advancements are entering the field faster than ever before. Many of them have new CPT codes affecting their use and applications. Yet the American Medical Association (AMA) can sometimes take as much as 18 months to 2 years to come out with modified CPT codes and instructions for some of these new advancements. This can lead to a plethora [...]
What Is CPT Code 99284 & How To Know When To Use It
Errors in medical billing codes tend to be one of the most common reasons that a claim is denied or rejected by mental and behavioral health payers. Not only can this lead to massive delays and inconsistencies in your practice’s revenue stream, but it can cause other long-term complications. A solo practitioner or a small practice that has frequent medical coding errors can sometimes draw a red flag from a private insurance company, public health institution, or another type [...]
What Is An EHR System for Behavior Therapy
Electronic Health Records (EHR) have become the new standard for tracking and recording a patient’s critical information. They have virtually done away with traditional paper-based charting methods that were cumbersome, and often presented an incomplete picture of the patient's long-term health records. This further led to problems caused by fragmented care for patients who needed to see multiple providers. EHR offers a much more comprehensive, chart, that can be accessed quickly, in real-time. They provide a patient-centric view of [...]
How to Recover Patients Dues to Maximize Your Accounts Receivables
Statistically, the moment a patient leaves a medical office without paying their outstanding bill, there is a 30% chance that they will never meet their financial responsibility. Unfortunately, for ABA therapists and other health care professionals, recovering these unpaid funds means spending significant resources, that go beyond financial considerations, and also include time lost in the red tape of the collections process. It is such a recurring trend, that many providers feel chasing these patients for their outstanding responsibility [...]
What Is CPT Code 99202 & How To Know When To Use It
Knowing when and how to correctly apply a CPT code is one of the most challenging aspects of mental health insurance billing. It typically requires the memorization and correct application of a staggering array of CPT codes. For a lot of solo practitioners, small practices, and ABA therapists, knowing exactly when to use a specific CPT code and in what situation can feel daunting. Yet accuracy is exactly how providers secure prompt payment from a “Clean Claim” that is [...]
Liability Insurance & Claims in ABA Therapy Help Guide You Should Know
Even the most diligent and forthright of ABA therapy providers still need to carry effective liability insurance both as a matter of law, as well as for sound business sense. Though just what type of liability coverage and type of claim can be somewhat complicated in certain situations. Especially with the advent of telehealth services and cybertherapy options. The fact remains that having a thoughtful liability policy in place not only protects your ABA therapy practice in a business [...]
