The shift to value-based care models are leading many payors to adopt a reimbursement model that has long been popular in mental health...

Over the last few years, trends in healthcare payment have led many facilities and providers to move “in-network” with payors to ensure...

The opioid crisis continues to rage in the United States, killing almost 40,000 people per year. While communities and legislators rush...

Determining Level of Care Have you checked with insurance companies lately to determine which criteria they are using to determine level...

You're probably used to insurers determining medical necessity and approving treatment after you've faxed clinical records. The insurer...

As an addiction treatment facility, you collect a lot of data on your patients from the moment they are admitted to the moment they leave...

Though claims denials are on the rise, professionals estimate that around 65 percent of denied insurance claims are never collected. Many...

For more than a decade, the California insurance commissioner’s office has led a case against United Healthcare Group (UHC) for wrongly...

New research into the effectiveness of addiction treatment is changing the future of addiction care. These studies are revealing new...

Because addiction can change the way the brain works, detox and residential care alone does not provide enough long-term care to create...

Behavioral health facilities are playing a growing role in reducing healthcare costs and improving patient outcomes. Many patients who...

Social media has become a cornerstone of marketing for many brands, providers, and facilities across the country. If your facility is not...

In a recent survey of 1,000 healthcare consumers, 76 percent said a practice’s billing process is important or somewhat important to...

With the rise of the opioid epidemic, a huge number of addiction treatment centers opened. However, some of these centers were only out...

As telehealth becomes more and more common, especially for treatment of substance abuse disorders, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

Denied claims are a common problem for physicians and health care facilities across the country. Denied claims can stack up quickly,...

Unfortunately, due to excessively denied medical claims, many providers have to write appeal letters to get paid for services that...

WHAT IS PRIOR AUTHORIZATION? Prior authorization is a requirement for medical providers to obtain approval from insurers before...

Reimbursement for addiction treatment is changing across the country—and unfortunately, it's not changing for the better. Between 2017...

Over the past two years, the National Association for Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP) have cracked down on advertising practices,...