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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3 Proven Tips To Reduce Denials For Mental And Behavioral

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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.



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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.



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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 – 19958

Tel: + 1 -888-502-0537

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