Massage Therapists choosing to bill insurance will find it one of the most rewarding decisions they will make in this career. Not only is treating injuries of post-work-related or auto accident victims immensely rewarding, and the bonds made with these clients can last a lifetime, but the consistent financial compensation while being known as the expert and go-to for such injuries is the cherry on top.
Some examples of what a Massage Therapist can expect to be compensated for by different insurance types:
Personal Injury Protection will pay up to $225 or more per 60-minute massage, plus another 15 minutes for hot or ice, and you must see these clients 3 times per week at the beginning of treatment, and reduce to 2 times per week as they heal and come to the end of treatment. Anything less, and the insurance companies will deem the treatments as not needed. So it is a detriment to be conservative in the number of sessions you treat these clients. The massage therapy treatments are referred by their physicians generally, and it’s customary to get prescriptions to start for 4 weeks of treatments at 3 times per week. Just one auto accident victim seeking treatment from you can bring you an average of $3,300 additional income per month. Two clients can bring in $6,600 per month. Three clients can bring in an extra $9,900 per month.
This means that with just three clients being referred to you after an auto accident injury, you can add $118,800 per year to your bottom line by billing their Personal Injury Protection Insurance.
Workers’ Compensation and Labor and Industries compensation may vary from state to state, but if we use Washington State as an example, a Massage Therapist may be reimbursed $110.98 per massage treatment and see the client the recommended 3 times per week, you would be earning an additional $1,331.76. This does not include compensation for heat or ice treatment, which pays for an additional 1 unit (15 minutes). But even without this, two clients being simultaneously treated would bring in an extra $2,663.52 per week, and three of these clients would bring in $3,995.28 per week additional income.
While there are laws to stay within dictating how much you charge that vary from state to state – either you must charge the same rate as your posted cash price, or you are limited to only a 30% increase, Meagan Holub teaches you the best strategy to set your pricing to stay within local laws, be ethical, and keep your clients feeling the pricing is fair while billing for the highest amount possible to keep you working smarter not harder. You will find a new, renewed love in your profession once you learn how to not only bill insurance, but are armed with the strategy that ensures you are paid on time, the full amount, rapidly, while others wait forever to be paid, and sometimes that day never comes. If her strategy doesn’t work, and you buy the full course and follow the simple steps she provides, and don’t get the results she claims, you will be refunded in full.
But if you set your mind to implementing the course, there will be no refund necessary, as you’ll assuredly enter into a new work flow of massaging fewer hours to earn far more in one of the most rewarding areas of the Massage Therapy profession. Gauranteed.
