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 [...]
How To Start An ABA Therapy Practice: The Ultimate Guide
If you have a deep passion or calling for providing your community with specialized Applied Behavioral Analysis therapy services, and you have reached the point where you want to break out to start your own ABA practice, then this ultimate guide to starting an ABA Therapy practice is the perfect place to start. If you are a BCBA then you have likely had the chance to supervise behavior analysis as well as mentor other ABA therapy providers. Though when [...]
10 Tips for New Behavior Therapists & Counselors
The opportunity to open your own private mental health care practices is extremely attractive and enervating for many therapists and counselors. Though it also comes with a few challenges when having to balance the rewarding aspects of patient care with the business aspects of maintaining your own small practice. To help you put your best foot forward, we collated a variety of tips to help new behavior therapists and counselors to navigate the water of growing their own small [...]
What Is A Medical Coder And What Do They Do?
Accurate medical billing plays a critical role in ensuring that physicians get paid consistently and at a reimbursement level that is appropriate for their credentials, the type of treatment administered, and any specialist services they offer. Of course, this reimbursement also affects their ability to do other essential things like pay administrative staff, update their medical equipment, purchase new medical supplies, and even pay their in-house administrative staff. Errors and missing information in a claim that’s accidentally submitted to [...]
How To Choose A Medical Billing Company?
In recent years, an increasing number of medical institutions and healthcare practices of all sizes have been turning to outsourcing their medical billing needs, rather than tasking them to their in-house administrative staff. While this trend is increasingly popular with small practices and solo practitioners, even larger clinics have realized the benefits of third-party medical billing services. Not only does outsourcing free up time for you or your administrative staff to focus on patient care, but it also helps [...]
Ways To Improve Your Practice’s Revenue Cycle
Medical billing and claim payment are a critical stage of the revenue cycle. Even the smallest of errors in either can lead to major interruptions in your practices stream of income. Correcting a problem once it has occurred further takes away more critical resources that would be better spent treating patients or expanding your practice. The following steps will help you improve each step of the revenue cycle. Verifying information and insurance coverage as part of the scheduling process. [...]
