ATPIAN Announces Launch of Revamped Website: ATPIAN.com
It's official! ATPIAN's announcement of our newly updated website launch hit the presses today. Below is the press release that went out and has already been picked up by several media outlets. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ATPIAN, Consulting Services Exclusively for Autism Treatment Providers, Announces New Website ATPIAN's revamped website offers autism treatment providers a single point of reference for all matters relating to their insurance credentialing, contracting, required cli
Five Things You Should Know About Your Insurance Contracts
Congratulations! You’ve completed the contracting process and are now an “in-network” autism treatment provider with one or more insurance companies. But do you really know what you’ve committed to? What your contract actually says? What terms and conditions you’ve agreed to abide by? Though you probably don’t want to admit it, the answer is probably: no! Here are five things you MUST know about your insurance contracts: 1. What are you actually contracted for? In other word
Morphing from the Educational Model to the Medical Model: A Shift in Mind-Set and in Practice
Adding insurance to your basket of funding sources is one of the most important steps you’ll take to ensure the financial security and viability of your autism treatment practice. The basic business principal of not having all your eggs in one basket – or more simply put, not relying on a single funding source – is especially important for autism treatment providers. You are often reliant upon school districts and other government funded pots of money that, as history has sho
Insurance Referrals: Where do They Really Come From and How do you Get Them?
Congratulations! You have successfully completed the insurance credentialing and contracting process and are now an in-network provider with one or more insurance companies. That is a huge achievement in itself, but you haven’t “arrived” just yet. One of the primary benefits of your hard earned in-network status is your ability to accept referrals… So why aren’t you getting any? The short answer is because your prospective referral sources don’t know you, they don’t know what
Preparing for your UBH Audit: Tips and Lessons Learned for Autism Treatment Providers
The final step in the contracting process with United Behavioral Health (UBH)/Optum is an audit. Depending on the type of agency, the audit may involve either a site visit by an auditor or a remote audit in which the autism treatment provider must send in documentation demonstrating that their practice and practitioners meet with UBH’s requirements. The UBH website offers prospective “auditees” access to the actual audit tools the auditors use. UBH has established a performa
