Mastering BCBS for a profitable private practice!

$80.00

Mastering BCBS doesn’t have to mean spending hours on the phone or sacrificing your therapy practice income to a trial and error process!

Version Date: July 2024

Mastering BCBS no longer requires numerous billing errors and unpaid claims before getting it right!

There’s a lot to learn about BCBS, and it’s all packed into this 2-hour webinar, full of practical information and tips that will make it easier to get paid!

  • The basics: prefixes, home plan, local plan … why is mastering BCBS so complicated?!
  • How to read & interpret the jargon of BCBS insurance cards.
  • Who at Blue do you contact for what task?
  • Transform Availity from an instrument of torture to a useful tool!
  • Other useful resources out there that no one knows about.
  • Just tell me where to send claims?!  States with multiple Blue plans.
    • California – this product is included with your webinar download!
    • Pennsylvania
    • Washington
    • …and others!
  • How your patient portal could be messing up BCBS billing – and what to do about it.
  • What information do you need to obtain from new clients to be sure your claims are paid?
  • When BCBS is secondary to Medicare…
    • Everything you think you know goes out the window!
    • Is there REALLY such a thing as filing a claim too soon?   Unbelievably…YES!
  • When your client has two different Blue plans.
  • Blue spinoffs: is it BCBS? Or isn’t it? How do you know?
  • BCBS Medicare Advantage.
  • BCBS Medicaid plans.
  • Telehealth: Practicing in multiple states and billing the Blues.
  • Out of network clinicians: what do you need to know?
    • Why “courtesy billing” doesn’t work well with BCBS.
  • Common errors – how to fix the things everyone gets wrong!
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