I am a licensed Massage Therapist that is Mobile. I was wondering how can I accept Health Insurance as a payment for a massage from my patients/clients?
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There are textbooks created to help understand how to properly set up your practice to accept insurance payments. The three main categories you need to determine are 1. Motor Vehicle personal injury 2. Workers Compensation injury 3. Major Medical Health Plans/Insurance The first is the best coverage, the second is good coverage and the third is cumbersome. Medicare/Medicaid are a waste of time, unless you are in a medical office that does the billing for you. Your question addresses the third category. Depending on the state you are in and/or the insurance company that is offering benefits, it may be worth the extra time and effort to accept these plans for billing. The following site leads to a book that is adequate for understanding most of what is needed to set up and begin accepting insurance. Give yourself 3-6 months of study and development of necessary forms before taking on your first Health plan patient. In any of these cases, the patient will need the following before insurance will even consider payment: 1. Physician's Referral/prescription (MD, DC, DO) 2. Medical necessity 3. Plan: number of sessions, duration, frequency, goals 4. NPI number & completed CMS-1500 form for billing This book will teach you all about how to set up insurance billing in your practice. There are others out there, but this is very informative for the price. It is possible to develop a medical massage practice going to people's homes, but it will take some time to develop it. http://shop.manualtherapyoffice.com/prod…
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