The Medicaid and Insurance Credentialing Process

Whether you just received your license or are already a licensed provider, you will want to obtain a Medicaid number and be accepted on to the MCO and available commercial insurance panels.  This is a detailed and lengthy process. If you have not yet done so, send a...

Service Coordination: The Nuts and Bolts

Progress Reports! The good, the bad and the ugly.Progress Reports are the one area most reviewed by everyone. They include every piece of progress, or lack of it, for the last service period. The initial paragraph gives the reviewer a glimpse of what is going on with...

Service Coordination: The Nuts and Bolts

Documentation is the beginning and end for a Service Coordinator. Good documentation helps client services get approved, hopefully over and over again. It provides the reviewing agency (such as KHC, MCO’s, auditing personnel, etc.) the opportunity to see exactly...

Services in the Schools

“Individual and/or collateral therapy may NOT be billed for recreational activities (i.e. swimming lessons, movies, lunch at school with the child, etc.).  Neither should individual and/or collateral therapy be billed for observation of a child in a...