From the Billing Experts at Practice Solutions
Learn to Take Insurance Like a Pro
We've felt the educational gap for a long time. Mental Health Clinicians go to school to learn how to be experts at helping their patients, not to be experts at insurance billing.
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We've compiled the years of expertise of all of our billers into one resource. Our book, Insurance Billing Basics: Steps for Therapists to Successfully Take Insurance is the class on billing you never got to take. It's the crash course on Revenue Cycle Management that will feel like putting on corrective lenses for the first time to examine how insurance works, and how your practice could improve its billing processes. It's the best $20 investment you can make.
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Even if you're already taking insurance, are you confident in the basics? If you're not yet taking insurance because you felt like you didn't know how, are you ready to take the plunge?
What's Inside?
Strategies for Taking Insurance
You don't have to take every insurance to be profitable. We've outlined the most successful strategies that providers have used to grow their practice from a solo clinician to a large group practice with multiple locations. Take your practice goals into consideration as you develop your personal strategy.​
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Get your practice aligned to achieve your goals.
Credentialing How-To
One of the most requested topics, and one of the biggest keys in insurance billing, we talk you through the process of credentialing, the most important things to look out for as you are applying, and what you need to do to make sure that billing goes smoothly after credentialing.
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Eliminate the guesswork. Learn the principles needed to credential yourself with any insurance company.
Revenue Cycle Management Overview
A professional term for billing, we cover the stages of revenue cycle management from beginning to end. Learn how to collect everything you need from your patients about their insurance, how to use that information to perform an eligibility and benefit check, how to understand what to charge your patient, and submit and follow-up on claims until they are paid and posted. Even if you're not the one managing the billing day-to-day, we believe every practice owner should understand the process and the health of their practice.​
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Stop getting frustrated. Start getting paid. You deserve it.
Prompts for Process Development
Your greatest enemy may feel like the insurance company, but are your processes (or lack thereof) actually hurting you more? We cover the processes that are necessary for a functional billing department, giving you tools to think through your own processes.
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Stop reinventing the wheel. Make the work feel like less work.
Who's the book for?
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Graduate students preparing for the realities of working in mental health care.
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Private practice therapists ready to take the leap into accepting insurance.
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Enterprising therapists planning to launch their own practice.
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Group practice owners who want to educate their team—therapists or office staff—on the fundamentals of taking insurance.
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Enterprise-level organizations seeking to provide resources for their network
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Affiliates and event organizers looking for valuable giveaways to enhance their events.
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College department heads aiming to equip students with practical tools for their future.
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Internship locations seeking to add meaningful resources for their trainees.
What people are saying
"As an accountant specializing in helping therapists build thriving private practices, I know how critical insurance billing is to a practice’s success—and how often it becomes a source of frustration. Insurance Billing Basics goes beyond the technical aspects of billing, encouraging practice owners to evaluate their financial needs, consider the impact of taking insurance, and align their strategies with their overall vision and mission. Through real-world examples and actionable advice, this book empowers therapists to approach billing as part of a holistic strategy for building a profitable, well-run, and values-driven practice."
Julie Herres
CEO, GreenOak Accounting​
"Taking insurance is complicated, but this book will help you take insurance without the frustration of learning it yourself. This is now my go-to resource for our members and consulting clients to help them with insurance."
Joe Sanok
Practice of the Practice, #1 Podcast for Counselors in Private Practice ​
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