3 Proven Tips To Reduce Denials For Mental And Behavioral Health Billing

3 Proven Tips To Reduce Denials For Mental And Behavioral Health Billing

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Medical billing is a complicated process as it is, in which medical billing for mental health services is more complicated than ever and comes with a bunch of unique challenges. Several services are covered under mental health such as pre-authorization, unbundling concerns, and the size and availability of office staff, mental and behavioral health billing cater more disadvantages when compared.

Why is Mental Health Billing so difficult? Look at other areas of medical billing. You can see some standard procedures

followed because of its definite treatment and recovery period, whereas it may not be the case with mental and behavioral health. Factors such as time, service variants, scope, and restraints imposed on treatments for mental health make it more complicated and indefinite.

Since the consultation and billing differ from patient to patient, the provider may find it difficult while billing and submitting claims because the reasons may vary multiply across patients.



Best Practices for billing Mental Health Services:1: Check twice on the insurance and coverage of your patients Since your patients carry their insurance card, you can quickly check their policy

benefits and whether the service they undergo is covered in the policy. This is how you do VOB. It also lets you know how much the insurer pays the patient for the service delivered.

2: Understand CPT codes: If the CPT codes are not appropriately mentioned, then there is no point that you

do the entire process right. These codes show you the amount of reimbursement for a specific healthcare service when delivered to patients. Unlike other medical billing processes, you may not be able to find CPT codes for mental health and billing so easily. No standard CPT codes are used for cognitive and behavioral health billing; instead, it should have E/M codes specified along with the respective CPT codes.



3: Know how to submit claims properly Like how codes are essential in a claim form, similarly, understanding how to fill

each column in the claim form also makes sense. You should go through the entire way thoroughly at first and before filling, in case of doubts, clarify it with an expert who has been into the claim submission and then proceed towards form filling and submission.

Conclusion To ease your mental health billing process and get your reimbursements without

any claim denials, outsourcing your medical billing and coding process is a wise option. You can approach 24/7 Medical Billing Services, the best medical billing and coding outsourcing company that carries extensive quality, support and achieving maximum reimbursements in medical billing and coding.


About 24/7 Medical Billing Services:

24/7 Medical Billing Services is the nation’s leading medical billing service provider catering services to more than 42 specialties across the entire 50 states. You can rely on us for end-to-end revenue cycle management. We guarantee up to 10-20% increase in the revenue with cost reduction of your practice for up to 50%. Call us today at 888-502-0537 to know more on how we can help boost profitability for your practice. Contact us -24/7 Medical Billing Services,16192 Coastal Hwy, Lewes, DE – 19958Tel: + 1 -888-502-0537Email - [email protected]


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3 Proven Tips To Reduce Denials For Mental And Behavioral Health Billing

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