Billing insurance for massage may be one of many ways to help make your business more profitable. If you need more clients as you are building your business, taking a few insurance clients here and there may help but you will need to figure that out from a business standpoint. Will it help make your […]
The ACA, aka Obamacare, and Massage therapists : 2706 – It's the Law!
The Affordable Care Act (yes it is the same thing as Obamacare) is starting to come into effect. Oct 1, 2013, was the opening of the States insurance exchange market which is where low income people can find insurance plans to fit their needs and budgets. The massage profession should have been working on getting […]
2013 – Getting Massage Covered by Health Insurance
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 […]
The Affordable Healthcare Act and the Massage Profession
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 for Massage Therapy
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 […]
The blessing and curse of billing for massage services
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 […]