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Eating disorder treatment billing is one of the hardest specialties in behavioral health. Parity enforcement is uneven, payer level-of-care criteria do not match clinical guidelines, and denial volume is high. Treatment centers that get paid consistently document against payer criteria, run concurrent review on schedule, and prepare for every peer-to-peer. Here is what makes ED billing so complex and what works.

ASC billing operates under its own rules: ASC Payment System indicators, multi-procedure discounts, implant pass-through, and a specific modifier set. ASCs that hire generalist billing support typically leak 5 to 12 percent of facility revenue. Here is what makes ASC billing structurally different from physician and hospital billing, and what works in centers that get paid consistently.

Physician billing covers the professional-fee side of healthcare reimbursement, distinct from facility billing. Independent practices typically leak 5 to 10 percent of potential revenue to E/M under-coding, modifier 25 errors, global period confusion, place-of-service mistakes, and incident-to gaps. Here is what physician billing is, where it goes wrong, and what good operations look like.

Mental health billing is structurally harder than general medical billing: parity enforcement varies, level-of-care criteria conflict, concurrent review is aggressive, and behavioral health carve-outs add a second payer layer. Practices that get paid consistently build billing around criteria-aligned documentation, scheduled concurrent review, and granular denial analysis. Here is what to look for in a mental health billing service.

Medical billing is how a practice gets paid. It converts patient visits into insurance claims through a ten-step cycle, depends on three coding systems, and breaks down in repeatable ways. Here is what billing actually involves, why claims get denied, and how to decide between in-house and outsourced.