Putting collaboration in your practice
Ours is a new profession, and because of that, our healthcare system doesn’t quite know what to do with us. In most states, we’re not licensed. We can’t prescribe. Many of us are not allowed to work as lactation consultants in hospitals or medical practices. As private practice lactation consultants, our clients must pay for …
Trine Bradshaw is a very busy IBCLC in Arizona. She is in network with Blue Cross and she signed up with Lactation Practice Billing Service as soon as we launched. We asked Trine about her business and about her experience with our billing service. LP: Tell us a little about your business. You seem to …
Katy was one of the first IBCLCs to sign up with our Billing service. At the time she signed up, she was not yet in network with Aetna or any other insurance. She took a leap of faith and has been entrusting us to file her out-of-network claims on behalf of her clients. Once she …
In honor of World Breastfeeding Week 2018, we’re offering a special reduced rate to new billing service providers who sign up during August 2018. Our monthly billing fee will be reduced to 7.5% for all new providers who sign up during the month of August 2018. This is an introductory offer and only available to NEW billing service users. This rate will be applied …
Questions to Ask When Contracting with Physician *Billing and payment What insurance are they contracted with? Are all HCP’s contracted with all insurance? Do they accept medicaid or other state insurance for low income? What percentage of low income will you see? Can you set limits on that? What is no show policy? Will you …
Key Components of “Incident To” Billing Incident-to billing is a way of billing outpatient services (rendered in a physician’s office located in a separate office or in an institution, or in a patient’s home) provided by a non-physician practitioner (NPP) such as a nurse practitioner (NP), physician assistant (PA), or other non-physician provider. *Physician must …
We feel passionately that every breastfeeding parent deserves high quality lactation care that is affordable and accessible. We also believe that IBCLCs in private practice have great value and should be able to practice their craft, support all families who desire help AND make a good living. What we are seeing and hearing from IBCLC’s …