Why Does your Patient’s Insurance Company need a W-9?

A few years ago, a patient left me an urgent message.  Her insurance company was demanding that I complete a W-9

The Need for Mindful Software Development

Elon Musk, perhaps the most ambitious tech CEO today, is promising self-driving Teslas as soon as next year.

An Ode to the CPT Code for Psychiatry

The biggest change to CPT coding in psychiatry happened in 2013. I got precisely 30 seconds of CPT coding

How Out-of-Network Reimbursement Works

Suppose Suzie spends $200 to see a therapist who does not take her health insurance (which is a PPO plan she obtains through her employer). Depending on the treatment she receives and the type of insurance plan, her insurance company might say the amount she paid exceeds the “allowed amount”. For out-of-network services, the patient […]

J- codes and E- codes and F- codes, Oh My!

Coding Best Practices for Ketamine Clinics Most outpatient out-of-network services like a visit to a doctor or therapist utilize fairly simple medical coding–there’s usually just one (or maybe two) service codes (also known as CPT, or Current Procedural Terminology codes). But as new treatments go out-of-network, like ketamine infusions for depression, medical coding needs to […]

“Health Care is Screwed Up” says our Co-founder in the New York Times

Insiders don’t know or share the prices in health care, one of the reasons costs get so inflated.As I wrote about