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HIPAA for Massage Therapists – Just do it.

August 10, 2020 By Julie Onofrio

HIPAA for Massage Therapists

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was created in 1996 to help protect the privacy of patients especially when health care professionals are using electronic billing, fax and email to send information back and forth.  There is so much confusion over whether or not a massage therapist has to implement HIPAA and whether they […]

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Massage CPT Codes

March 15, 2015 By Julie Onofrio

Massage Current Procedural Techniques or CPT Codes are the codes that you need to describe your massage services to insurance companies.  The CPT codes are created by the American Medical Association (AMA). The basic Massage CPT codes are as follows: 97124 -Therapeutic Procedure, 15 minutes. One or more areas, including effleruage, pettrissage and/or tapotement, compression, […]

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Getting health insurance to cover massage therapy

August 17, 2014 By Julie Onofrio

One of the next steps in the future of the massage profession will be getting more health insurance companies in the US to pay for massage therapy.  It is already happening plan by plan in various states and some companies are setting up alternative health benefits for their employees and allowing a yearly benefit for […]

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Insurance Billing for massage services – Make it so.

August 19, 2012 By Julie Onofrio

The AMTA 2012 Industry fact sheet says: More than half of adult Americans (59 percent) would like to see their insurance cover massage therapy.4 The vast majority of massage therapists (96 percent) believe massage therapy should be considered part of the health care field. I was a little shocked by those numbers thinking that they […]

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Massage Insurance Billing in WA State

August 18, 2012 By Julie Onofrio

WA State MT have been able to bill health insurance for massage since around 2000 or so.  There was a law created in 1996 that the insurance companies fought for years until it was finally made into law by the US Supreme Court.  The law we have here is called the ‘Every Category Law’ which […]

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