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Insurance Billing for Massage TherapistsThe 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 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. Massage
Today Articles: 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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