Medicaid Eligibility Requirements for Substance Abuse Treatment
Beginning with the Affordable Care Act in 2010, Medicaid policies are required to pay for substance abuse treatment. Due to opioid...
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Clear Your Outstanding Accounts Receivable for the New Year.
A new year means a fresh start—not just for diet plans, but for medical facilities, too. It’s a time to review policies and processes and...
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Key Factors Driving a Successful Medical Practice
Though patients always come first, healthcare is also a business. Like any good business, healthcare facilities can only thrive when they...
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How to Optimize Your EHR Functions
A fully integrated electronic health record (EHR) system can offer convenience for medical practices and providers. However, according to...
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How-to Get Your Behavioral Health Facility IMS Certified
Why Your Facility Should Seek Certification Beginning in 2016, residential detox facilities were given the option to apply for IMS...
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Marketing Techniques for Addiction Treatment Centers
Addiction treatment centers have not always had a clean track record for ethical marketing techniques. Facilities often pay marketers for...
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Payor Guidelines for Each Level of Care
As insurers receive more claims for addiction treatment and behavioral health care, they are becoming more stringent on what counts as...
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Increase your revenue with Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
Due to the escalating opioid epidemic, the use of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is growing quickly; almost doubling since 2007. MAT...
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Increase Your Treatment Center's Bottom Line Pt. 1 – Develop Relationships With Payors
Local payors are not always the enemy; they can be a source of revenue and referrals. Though many treatment centers turn to patient or...
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Increase your Treatment Center's Bottom Line – Pt. 2 – Develop a Professional Network
Over the past few years, addiction treatment has become part of mainstream healthcare and has undergone huge changes in regulation,...
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Which Patient Outcomes Should Your Facility Track?
Patient outcome tracking is becoming more common—and even required—throughout the healthcare system. Many insurers and certification...
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Predicting the Future of Addiction Treatment
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to shape and change the landscape of healthcare and healthcare reimbursement. It’s provisions...
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Key Components of a Healthcare Revenue Cycle
While it’s easy to associate your billing staff with revenue cycle management, many people forget that the revenue cycle actually begins...
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Growing Reimbursement Opportunities for Behavioral Telehealth Services
The new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Congressional Report highlights the growing opportunities for behavioral health...
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One Position Every Health Provider Should Fill: Director of Assurance
Quality metrics are becoming more important than ever in healthcare, particularly in outcome-based reimbursement models. These models...
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IS YOUR BILLING TEAM APPEALING DENIED CLAIMS?
Denied claims are a frequent problem for physician offices and health care facilities across the country. Even when you are in-network,...
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Do You Collect Patient Co-pays?
A new law is making co-pay collection more important than ever for behavioral health facilities—and changing the way some facilities do...
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Do Prior Authorization Negatively Impact Care
If you plan on receiving insurance reimbursement, prior authorization is a necessary step in getting your patients the care they need....
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99091 New Telehealth CPT Code for Remote Patient Monitoring
In January 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services unbundled CPT Code 99091, a 16-year-old code in desperate need of...
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Behavioral Health Billing Trend Report
The behavioral health industry, particularly addiction treatment, is evolving rapidly.. To keep up with the changes, it’s vital that your...
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