ABA Therapy Insurance Eligibility—7 Steps To Avoid A False Positive 7-step guide for ABA Therapy intake coordinators to ensure that their patients are eligible and covered for ABA Therapy services by their medical health insurance plan. Have you called a patient’s insurance company to verify eligibility for ABA Therapy, been told by the insurance eligibility[...]

ABA Therapy Billing—Negotiating An In-Network Single Case Agreement (SCA) For Out-Of-Network Providers Tips for ABA Therapy providers and intake or authorization coordinators to help gain Single Case Agreements for In-Network payment as an Out-Of-Network provider. Even though your agency may be Out-Of-Network (OON) with a particular insurance company, you may still have the option of[...]

ABA Therapy Initial Assessment Authorizations—How To Maximize Each Auth Tips for ABA Therapy intake or authorization coordinators to ensure maximized authorization for the most billable hours for your client’s initial assessment and examples of authorization processes by insurance company. You have followed our  ABA Therapy Insurance Eligibility guide, and you are now certain that your[...]

ABA Therapists And Providers—Billing And Collections Best Practices (Part 1 Of 2) Searching for ways to improve billing and collections processes? Whether you are a solo BCBA or have multiple therapists, find suggested best practices here. ABA Therapists and Providers Billing and Collections Best PracticesEarly in my accounting management career, I worked for a fantastic[...]

ABA Therapy Credentialing—6 Steps To Surviving An Optum/UBH Audit Tips for BCBAs and ABA Therapy providers applying for In Network status with Optum/UBH Insurance. As we noted in our previous credentialing blog, each insurance company has its own process for credentialing as In Network for ABA Therapists and ABA Therapy providers. This week, our guest blogger,[...]

ABA Service Partnering—How To Choose Your Preferred Insurance Billing Partner What therapists and providers need to consider when choosing the best insurance billing partner for your ABA Therapy agency. I’ve had the opportunity to speak to quite a few BCBA’s and Directors of ABA agencies who are seeking a preferred billing partner for their ABA[...]

ABA Therapy Providers—The 3 Basics Of Digital Marketing Digital Marketing basics for BCBAs and ABA Therapists wanting to leverage social media and the web to obtain more clients. This week, guest blogger Chris Estep, founder of TheChatterBox Guys, will highlight how you can use digital marketing to build your business and your clientele. Attention new BCBAs[...]

Becoming A Special Needs Mom: Autism . . . From Diagnosis To Advocate Guest blogger and Autism Mom, Beth Moore, tells us how she became the wonderful advocate she is, working to help gain insurance coverage for ABA Therapy and for many other needed opportunities for children diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum in her home state[...]

ABA Therapists And Providers—Billing And Collections Best Practices (Part 2 Of 2) Best practices for improving billing and collections processes for solo BCBAs and ABA Therapy providers with multiple therapists. A few weeks ago, we talked about the mantra “bill early and often.” Now we are going to dive into the second part, “dial for[...]

I Started My Own Business! Now What Do I Do About Bookkeeping? Guest blogger, Debi Choi of Blue Ridge Business Services, walks us through the first steps of determining your business’s accounting and bookkeeping needs and how to determine the right questions to ask about your business and about whom you may be considering as an[...]