How do you bill insurance for couples or family counseling?

When doing any type of couples or family counseling one person in the couple or family is the “identified patient”. Sessions will be billed under this person. However, all participants will be asked to complete a brief set of evaluations at each visit which help Dr. Swinton track progress. Insurance companies encourage progress tracking and as a result they reimburse for doing this. Hence, if more than one person participates, tracking will be done for each participant and each participant’s insurance will be billed for these evaluations. If any participants do not have insurance, Dr. Swinton will waive that participant’s requirement to bill insurance.