Revenue leak
EAP mix-up
Claim-level cause
Flat-rate EAP session billed to insurance, or the reverse
Mental Health billing · Manchester, NH
247 Medical Billing Services (247MBS) delivers mental health billing services in Manchester for the counseling practices, group therapy offices, and teletherapy providers serving New Hampshire's largest city and its Massachusetts-border commuter base.
Since 2005 we have billed a commercial-and-EAP-heavy book alongside the state's Medicaid Care Management plans, and every practice gets a dedicated account manager, a free 360° dashboard, and HIPAA plus SOC 2 Type II compliance.
Manchester is New Hampshire's urban and employment center, and its outpatient caseload is far more commercial than the capital's. A large share of clients commute to jobs in the Massachusetts corridor or work for Manchester employers, so structured PPO and employee-assistance coverage dominates the book, with the state's Medicaid population layered underneath. On the commercial side, behavioral benefits are often carved out to a managed vendor, which means paneling has to be confirmed on both the medical and the behavioral network before a claim is clean — and EAP sessions run on flat-rate contracts entirely separate from a client's insurance, so mixing the two is a common and costly error.
Underneath the commercial layer sits New Hampshire's Medicaid Care Management program, run by NH Healthy Families (Centene), WellSense Health Plan, and AmeriHealth Caritas New Hampshire, each with its own enrollment and behavioral network. Elliot Health System and Catholic Medical Center anchor the local delivery system, but most counseling runs through independent clinicians who carry a heavier commercial and EAP share than their Concord peers. Our New Hampshire billing overview lays out how the Medicaid Care Management structure works statewide.
Outpatient psychotherapy is billed by documented face-to-face time, so the note and the code have to agree before a claim goes out. Our coders confirm minutes, modifiers, and place of service on every session.
| Service billed | Code / modifier | What a clean claim needs |
|---|---|---|
| Diagnostic intake | 90791 / 90792 | DSM-5 diagnosis; 90792 only with a prescriber's medical element |
| Individual therapy | 90832 / 90834 / 90837 | Documented minutes matching the code's time band |
| Family session | 90846 / 90847 | 90847 with the client present; 90846 collateral without |
| Group psychotherapy | 90853 | A separate note for each participating member |
| Home teletherapy | POS 10 + modifier 95 | Audio-only uses modifier 93; POS 02 for non-home sites |
| Interactive complexity | 90785 add-on | Attaches to a base therapy code, never billed alone |
An urban practice running a commercial-and-EAP-heavy book cannot spare a clinician's hours to reconcile flat-rate EAP contracts, confirm carve-out paneling, and track Care Management enrollment across three plans. That is the case for handing it off. Rather than route a complex commercial book through a general billing company that treats therapy like any other line, Manchester practices choose a therapy billing company built for outpatient psychotherapy. When you outsource to 247MBS, we run credentialing as an ongoing function — CAQH, paneling, and re-credentialing across commercial plans and Medicaid Care Management — then scrub claims to a 99% first-pass clean-claim rate and appeal denials with the documentation payers demand. As a professional medical billing services company for outpatient therapy, we recover up to 90% of worked denials, cut denials by as much as 40%, keep days in A/R under 25, and hold 98% client retention, every account carried by AAPC- and AHIMA-certified coders and a dedicated manager.
Mental Health Billing Services Outsourcing in Manchester pays off only when the front end is disciplined, so we separate EAP sessions from insurance claims, confirm commercial and Medicaid enrollment before the visit, and template notes so medical necessity is recorded before a reviewer asks. Every claim is visible on your live dashboard, so the state of your revenue cycle is never a month-end surprise.
Revenue review
A certified mental health billing specialist reviews your coding, unit counts, authorizations and aged A/R against the payers you actually bill in Manchester, NH — and puts a number on what your current process is leaving on the table.
A mental health specialist will reach out within one business day.
A mental health specialist will reach out within one business day.
On a commercial-and-EAP-heavy book, denials cluster around routing, paneling, and the EAP-versus-insurance line, not collections.
EAP mix-up
Flat-rate EAP session billed to insurance, or the reverse
Carve-out denial
Behavioral vendor never paneled a medical-plan clinician
Care Management mismatch
Medicaid claim billed to the wrong managed-care plan
Paneling gap
Clinician seeing clients before enrollment finalizes
Telehealth tag error
Wrong POS or missing modifier on a home session
90837 downcode
Hour session paid at the 45-minute rate, no time note
We bill for solo LCSW, LPC, and LMFT private practices, group counseling offices, psychologists and psychological testing services, community mental-health programs, couples and family therapists, child and adolescent teams, trauma and EMDR clinicians, employee-assistance providers, and teletherapy platforms across the Greater Manchester area. Our clients work in Manchester and out to Bedford, Hooksett, Goffstown, and Londonderry toward the Massachusetts line. Whether your revenue leans commercial, EAP, Medicaid Care Management, or a mix, we bill each stream on its own terms rather than forcing every clinician through one template, with one dedicated account manager and a free dashboard showing every claim.
Manchester practices are billed out of the same New Hampshire desk. Statewide payer detail lives on the New Hampshire page.
Mental Health billing in New Hampshire — the payer programs, authorities and rules behind every Manchester claim.
Mental Health Billing Services — the codes, unit rules and denials nationally, without the local layer.
We flag each client's coverage before the session, bill EAP sessions on their flat-rate contracts and insurance claims to their own plan rules, and never let a commuter's employer-assistance visit get filed against their medical benefit or the reverse.
Yes. We track each clinician's enrollment with NH Healthy Families, WellSense, and AmeriHealth Caritas, confirm it before we file, and route each Medicaid claim to the plan that covers the member.
It is. Outsourcing gives a group a full billing team without the hiring cost, and our workflow catches EAP, carve-out, and paneling denials before they compound across a larger caseload.
From solo practices to multi-provider groups, we bill Mental Health for Manchester practices with a dedicated account manager, certified coders and a live dashboard — so the units, authorizations and appeals that decide your month stop being the thing nobody has time for.
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