Insurance Billing for Massage Therapists
Manual
Table of Contents
1. Introduction-
Issues and Ethics in with Billing Insurance
Companies
Finding Your Cost Per Client - Use
this formula to determine if it will be profitable for you to accept
insurance.
2.
What To Charge- Setting Fees for Your Insurance Cases: the issues and ethics
of insurance billing.
3.
Types of Insurance Coverage - Overview
- Personal Injury Insurance
- Personal Injury Protection
- Third Party
Coverage/Liability
- Uninsured Motorists
- Workers Compensation
- Private Health Insurance
-managed care plans –PPO, HMO
4.
Personal Injury
Motor Vehicle Accidents/other accidents
- Liens
- Working with Attorneys
- IME’s – Independent Medical
Exams
5.
Private Health Insurance-HMO’s, PPO”s, Affinity plans
-
Becoming a Provider
-
Contracts
6.
Worker’s compensation or Labor and Industries
7.
HCFA 1500– The Billing Form Explained
Line by Line- How to fill out a HCFA
8.
CPT codes and ICD-9 codes
9.
Insurance Billing Documentation –
SOAP notes
Progress reports Narrative reports
10.
Getting Paid
11. Networking
12.
Putting it all together
13.
The
Future of Massage and working with insurance companies
14.
Glossary
A-E,
F-O,
P-Z
15.
Appendix –
Cost per client formula
ICD-9 codes
Insurance Benefits verification form
Track insurance company communications
Intake forms
Physicians’ referral/prescription
Insurance Billing and payment Tracking
Progress
Report
Resources for billing.