Putting collaboration in your practice
I really enjoyed talking with Jen about her business and how she came to use Lactation Practice Billing Service. Here’s a bit of our conversation LP: How did you become an IBCLC? JK: I came to this profession from birth and postpartum doula work. I love working with families so much and have always been …
Lactation Practice recently had a conversation with one of our esteemed providers, Brenda Dalton, RN, IBCLC. She talked to me about her practice, and her experiences with insurance billing. Brenda has been an IBCLC since 2004 and has vast experience working in a hospital setting in the NICU as well as teaching breastfeeding classes. In …
We’re pleased to have had an opportunity to catch up with Beth Brownstein. She has vast experience related to supporting breastfeeding including birth and postpartum doula work, hospital-based classes, breastfeeding support groups as well as being a home-visit IBCLC. She’s been an IBCLC since 2011 and is excited to focus more on her private practice, now that her …
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 …
Every time we do a workshop about working in a physician’s office we get multiple questions about “What is normal?” “What is common?” “What are other IBCLC’s doing in this situation?” We want to give people answers! Here’s your opportunity to contribute to a body of knowledge that we know is out there, but is …
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 …