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Insurance Billing for Massage Therapists

 

 

The Insurance Billing Manual is now online for free. 

You don't need to bill insurance companies!!  You can build a very successful practice taking only cash clients with patience and perseverance. Find out how to do just that at www.massagepracticebuilder.com

The Future of Insurance Billing - Billing Insurance Companies is a mixed blessing!  We are being paid less and less and having more trouble getting paid.  Guest Editorial published in Massage Magazine Nov/Dec 2005
Comments from readers and my replies

The State of Billing Insurance Companies -  I am collecting information on what billing is allowed in each state and have provided my own take of what is happening here in WA.  Do we really want to be able to bill insurance companies????

The ability to bill insurance companies?  How can you get recognized in your state? Do you really want to be recognized?

HCFA - Word Doc.   Use a Word template to complete a HCFA form.  Just type in the gray areas and fill out in the same manner as a HCFA and save to your computer.  Print on a HCFA.  ( I got this form somewhere along the lines and don't know where it actually came from.  I apologize to the author for sharing it without his permission.)

CPT codes/ICD codes-   Basic codes to get you started.

Issues and Ethics in Billing Insurance Companies (my challenge to the profession)-This is a must read for anyone contemplating participating in a provider network or wanting to bill insurance companies for massage therapy services.  There are many issues involved and no clear answer.  I encourage everyone to get engaged and start participating as a community to find some resolution of the issues at hand.

Medical Massage - What it will do to our profession?  Do we really need a separate designation?  What qualifies as being medical? How is medical massage being defined and who is defining it?

SOAP notes - Basic charting guidelines - Taking SOAP notes is essential if you want to bill insurance companies for your services.

What do we want to say in soap notes   
       
Functional outcomes charting- If you are going to bill insurance companies for your services, you will need to learn to play this game of charting in order to get paid!

General guidelines for Insurance Reimbursement- Includes Personal Injury, Third Party Reimbursement, and Labor and Industry.

Personal Injury Common Legal Terms


 Insurance Billing Resources:

Massage Today Articles:
    Vivian Madison Mahoney articles
    Ralph Stevens on Medical Massage

Sohnen-Moe's information on insurance billing

www.massageinsurancebilling.com - Vivian Madison Mahoney's website with classes and manual's on insurance billing.

Yahoo!Group - Insurance billing for massage

The Medical Massage Office- There is much controversy around David Luther's site on insurance billing and his efforts to create a medical massage certification.  From what I understand,  he is telling everyone that a certification is needed in order to allow them to bill for medical massage.  If they don't have this, they won't be able to.  This just isn't true.  The ability to bill insurance companies has little to do with any certification process which will only put money in his pocket.  He has been doing some work to stand up for the profession regarding billing

 

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