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Behavioral Health Billing: How to Manage Private Pay vs. Insurance Reimbursement

Whether you’re just starting your behavioral health practice or reevaluating your reimbursement processes, choosing between private pay and insurance is critical. The decision will impact your financial operations and the accessibility of your services. With that in mind, let’s explore these behavioral health medical billing business models for ABA therapy and how to choose the […]

Strategies to Prevent Underpayment in Behavioral Health Billing

Medical billing is a complex process that can be even more convoluted for behavioral health billing. The intricacies of behavioral health services, diverse payer requirements, and varying state regulations can result in several issues, including medical underpayment.  It’s one of the most common issues providers face and can have significant financial consequences. Behavioral health practices, […]

Why Do Providers Need Practice Management Software?

The right Practice Management software tools not only help to organize important information and aspects of day-to-day business operations, but the significant amounts of time that are saved can be spent on what’s most important – your patients.

Tips for Improving Patient Collections

It is the beginning of the year and typically that means your patients are accumulating deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. That means it’s the perfect time to improve your patient collections! Here are a few easy things to do to collect ABA therapy patient balances.

Top Ten Benefits of Outsourcing ABA Billing

Are you running a successful ABA therapy practice or considering starting one? Then you’re probably looking at the pros and cons of in-house billing vs. outsourcing. Read on to discover 10 reasons to outsource medical billing, from reducing costs to ensuring faster, more streamlined patient collections. 1. Reduce internal staffing costs If you decide to […]

Expectations When Outsourcing ABA Insurance and Billing

One of the most important considerations when starting an ABA therapy practice or looking to improve your existing practice is insurance and billing. You’ll need to investigate the drawbacks and benefits of outsourcing medical billing vs. in-house billing and compare the various billing outsourcing services available to you.  Discover the three options available for managing […]