Private Practice Download Bundle

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What’s Inside?

In addition to your 3 hours of consultation time with Melissa, you will receive:

Steps to Private Practice: Featuring Step by Step Guide for Contracting and Credentialing

The Steps to Private Practice Guide is perfect for those who are ready to start an insurance based practice but don’t have either the funds to hire someone to do the Contracting/Credentialing for them or the time to waste endless hours navigating through numerous websites to figure out where to start.

Gone are the days in which we as providers received endless denials to our contract applications due to “over saturation of providers”.  Insurers are now legally obligated to offer contracts to any eligible providers who submit applications and necessary documentation.

This download includes a 4 Step Process:

• Setting up your LLC

• Obtaining or Confirming your NPI Type 1 or 2

• Applying for Insurance Contracts

• Submitting or Updating Credentialing Applications to Reflect My New Practice

Each step includes links to the exact website you need to access for each commercial insurer as well as direct contact information for the credentialing and contracting departments.  It also includes some helpful tips for what specifically to pay attention to as well as what to disregard on each of these application sites.

This guide includes information for the following insurances:

• Department of Human Services (DHS) Medicaid

• Health Partners/Cigna

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

• Optum - United Health Care, Medica, UBH, Preferred One, Bind

• Ucare

• Department of Human Services (DHS) Medicare

Private Practice Start Up Checklist

The private practice start up checklist is a guide to all things private practice.  This download is a thorough checklist including to-dos around structuring your business, financial arrangements, technology needs, office space and allocation, form creation, insurance considerations, and plenty more.  

The infographic can either be printed out to serve as a visual reminder for what needs to happen, or be used digitally to track what has been accomplished and what still needs to be done.  

Business Associate Template

As clinicians we are bound by HIPAA to ensure that all of our business relationships are following the legal standards set forth in order to protect client confidentiality.  The Business Associate Template gives you an editable document to use with all of your outside suppliers (admin staff, EHR, billing agencies, credit merchants, etc.) to remain within HIPAA compliance regulations.  The BAA lays out a contractual agreement that necessitates how PHI is managed and dealt with by these outside suppliers to keep all data confidential.

This download is editable to add your logo, your practice information, and the information of the Business Associate that will have access to the protected data.