Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment: NIATx Business Practices for the Future Learning Collaborative

NIATx is pleased to announce a second round of the Business Practices of the Future Learning Collaborative—Fee-for-Service. This learning collaborative will focus on giving behavioral healthcare providers, including adolescent substance abuse treatment providers, the skills they need to bill third-party payers for their services.  
 
Already billing insurance companies? We can help you do it better. Participants will receive support in either creating a billing system from scratch or improving collections for an existing billing system, using the NIATx Third-party Billing Guide, Second Edition, and other NIATx resources, as a guide.
 
Participants found the first round of this learning collaborative an eye-opener, busting some of the myths that many providers have about billing insurance companies. For example, they learned that you can bill for a service without a contract, by setting up a single case agreement. And you don’t need to purchase an expensive electronic medical record system in order to start billing. (See the billing guide, linked above, to learn how to do this – and more.)
 
For more information, join the informational call:
Wednesday, August 24, 2011, 2:00 pm EST/1:00 pm CST
Call-in number: 1-866-642-1665
Passcode: 213469#

Kim Johnson is the deputy director for operations of NIATx, a research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that focuses on systems improvement in behavioral health. She is also director of the ACTION (Adopting Changes to Improve Outcomes Now) Campaign, a national campaign to improve access to and retention in treatment. She has a master's degree in counselor education and an MBA.
 
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