Specialized Behavioral Mental Billing Services

How to improve Behavioral/Mental Billing & Coding Process of your Practice

You can consider the following points to improve the efficiency of Behavioral/Mental Billing Practice

Ensure that patient’s information is true

It won’t hurt to look over something twice just to make sure everything is in the right place. Being a mental healthcare professional, it is always important to ensure that patient information stays correct at every point. In fact, it is important to endorse double-checking in the billing process to avoid any chance of error.

Submit Claims Properly

You can work hard on submitting claims and take proper care in the entire process. But all your work will be in vain if there is any error in the billing process. For any service rendered, it is indisputable to receive reimbursement, but if the practice doesn’t properly focus on the proper billing and coding, the process can become quite frustrating for healthcare providers.

Know Your CPT Codes

Ensuring proper CPT codes will bring in reimbursements as per the coverage of given mental health service. The codes might often be time-based and associated with time taken for the session or presence of the patient in family therapy. For example, CPT 90832 is used to denote 30 minutes of patient-centered psychotherapy, family or couple therapy of 50 minutes with the patient present is coded as 90847, while group therapy other than a family group is coded as 90853.