NSCHBC’s Behavioral & Mental Health Virtual Summit

The NSCHBC first Annual Behavioral Health and Mental Health Virtual Summit was aimed at covering all aspects of behavioral health within our healthcare system. This summit included:

• Contracting and Credentialing Behavioral Health Professionals with Payers
• Understanding Screening Services for Medicare Beneficiaries
• Pediatric Patients in BH
• Commercial Insurance Patient Coverage
• How to Integrate NPP/QHP’s into Behavioral Health Services in Primary Care Practices
• Telehealth Impact and Rules for Behavioral Health Billing, Collections, and Appeals in the RCM Space
• HHS-OIG Workplan Concerns for Behavioral and Mental Health

Vinod, Our CEO, Spoke on “Collections, Appeals in Behavioral Health Services”

Vinod Sankaran, MS MBA, CEO of Medical Billing Wholesalers, spoke at the Summit on the topic “Collections, Appeals in Behavioral Health Services.” In this session, he covered:

1. Successfully appealing behavioral health claims
2. Importance of reducing denials and shifting focus to denials prevention
3. Streamlining denials follow-up through workflow
4. Importance of reducing claim denials and improving first-pass resolution

This summit was designed for staff members, coders, billers, practitioners, administrators, and managers who work in the behavioral health arena. The goal was to provide a wide range of learning opportunities covering the continuum of best practices in integration, finance, coding, and billing; quality improvement/quality assurance; telehealth; and business practices that support sustainability.