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. It is still unclear and confusing as to whether or not every Massage Therapist needs to be HIPAA compliant […]
Massage Insurance Billing
Massage CPT Codes
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, […]
Getting health insurance to cover massage therapy
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 […]
Insurance Billing for massage services – Make it so.
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 […]
Massage Insurance Billing in WA State
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 […]