HOW TO SURVIVE DEDUCTIBLE SEASON

It is that time of year once again and, while the New Year may bring new opportunities to save lives for healthcare providers , it comes with a caveat: Deductible Season. If your treatment program does not already have a strong system in place for collecting Place-of-Service (POS) payments, you may have noticed an increase […]

Utilization Review Technology Improves Outcomes for Behavior Healthcare Providers

If you’ve worked in the behavioral healthcare realm for more than a few months, you already know treatment services aren’t always utilized the way they should be. This is more often due to billing problems than treatment issues. Because of this, the utilization review process has disintegrated over time, and now providers need multiple full-time employees to deal with insurance companies, handle medical billing, process insurance claims, and pursue medical collections.

Improve Insurance Reimbursements by Improving Documentation

The entire business model of a substance abuse treatment center depends upon accurate, complete and timely insurance reimbursements.  Unfortunately, many treatment centers struggle to accurately and effectively document patient care in order to get the reimbursements they need to stay afloat.With that in mind, we put together this simple cheat sheet for improving patient documentation. For a more in depth look at this issue, we invite you to download our e-book, 3 Reasons Your Documentation is Costing You Money – And What to Do About It.