Insurance Billing and Coding 101 for Mental Health

Live Event - Insurance Billing and Coding 101 for Mental Health Professionals

[1.5 CE] March 28, 2025-10am EST: This webinar will navigate mental healthcare insurance, including credentialing, billing, coding, benefits verification, preauthorization, and single-case agreements to help providers improve access to quality care.

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Course curriculum

Live Webinar Event: March 28, 2025 at 10am EST

1. Insurance Billing and Coding 101 for Mental Health Professionals
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About this course

$45.00
CE Credits: 1.5 hours
Live Interactive Webinar
Level: Introductory-Intermediate

About This Course

Navigating the world of insurance in mental healthcare can be challenging for both patients and clinicians. Despite these challenges, understanding the ins and outs of insurance can lead to improved access to quality care. From credentialing and contracting to understanding the terms, standards, and practices of behavioral health billing and coding, this workshop will provide an introduction to working with commercial insurance companies. Benefit verification, preauthorization, billing procedures and coding for psychological assessment and psychotherapy services as an in-network provider will be discussed as well as the process of single-case agreements for individuals as an out-of-network provider.

This is a live, interactive webinar event that will take place on March 28, 2025 at 10am EST.

Learning Objectives

At the completion of the course, participants will be able to:

Define the terms used in the insurance industry to describe healthcare benefits.

Describe the processes of insurance verification and pre-authorization.

Utilize CPT codes to effectively bill commercial insurance companies and maximize collection.

Instructor(s)

Marla Deibler, PsyD. ABPP

Founder & CEO, The Center for Emotional Health

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Marla Deibler, PsyD, ABPP is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Board-Certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology, and Founder/Executive Director of The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia. Dr. Deibler serves on the Faculty of the Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI) of the International OCD Foundation, the Board of Directors of OCD NJ - the NJ affiliate of the IOCDF, and on the Scientific Advisory Council of the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome. Dr. Deibler is a Visiting Clinical Supervisor at the Rutgers University Psychological Services Clinic, and an Executive Council member of the ACBS OCD SIG. She is co-author of The BFRB Recovery Workbook and writes for Psychology Today.

Course Approvals

The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC is not responsible to verify that American Psychological Association continuing education credits are approved by an attendee's respective state licensing Board.

The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0189. Provider Name: The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC Address: 1910 Route 70, E, Suite 7, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003-2123 Email address: [email protected]

The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No.7263. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC, #1820, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 6/15/2023 - 6/15/2026.

*A post test must be taken and passed in order to receive CE credit. Participants may retake the posttest a maximum of 3 times to receive a passing score. A qualifying passing score is 80% or above.