I am still recovering from attending the AMTA WA annual meeting last Saturday.  They had 3 different talks on insurance billing.  The first speaker was teaching how to get into doing health insurance billing which everyone really knew.  Here are some highlights: Read your contracts Read the Billing and Treatment Guidelines for each insurance company. [...]

Here in WA State, massage is a covered benefit on health insurance plans. Labor and Industries – L&I is undergoing an update to their system Healthways/Whole Health Networks covers Cigna, Aetna and Corvel which is a combination of auto insurance companies. Premera Blue Cross/Lifewise WA     Requires specific prescription that you have to fax to [...]

2013 will be a big year for the massage profession and massage therapists.  One of the major things we will have to be working on as a profession is whether or not massage will be covered on health insurance plans in every state under the Affordable Care Act which goes into effect in 2014. This [...]

This is the information that I got from attending the WA State AMTA Convention on April 26 from their Government Relations Presentation from Barbara Fly from the Insurance Commissioners office and David Madison who is a consultant for the AMTA WA. The Affordable Healthcare Act was a bill created by President Obama that was signed [...]

Setting fees for billing insurance companies for massage therapy has long been a very controversial topic for me personally.  Whenever you ask a massage therapist how they set their rates for billing insurance, you will get as many different answers as there are massage therapists. Over the years I have struggled with how massage therapists [...]

Insurance Billing can be a good way to keep your massage business going or to help it grow.  If you don’t have enough clients and are constantly struggling it might be a good way to stabilize your business and make ends meet or even make being a massage therapist very profitable.  With insurance, clients will [...]

Massage Insurance Billing has been one of my – I guess you would say pet peeves.   I have been billing insurance companies from the very beginning of my career in 1989 and have found the work to be both a blessing and a curse.  I started billing for car accidents (now called motor vehicle collisions [...]

Billing insurance companies for massage services has always been one of my mixed blessings throughout my career in massage.  Right from the beginning of my career in 1989 with my little 250 hours of massage training, I have been able to bill auto insurance companies for car accidents and other insurance companies for slip and [...]