Indiana superbill and invoice for LMHC, LCSW, LMFT, and psychologists
This page is the same Therapist Invoice Generator generator with Indiana selected. Out-of-network clients still need a superbill with your NPI, tax ID, Indiana license number, CPT codes, ICD-10 diagnoses, place of service, and fees. Private-pay clients usually need a simpler invoice — toggle the document type above.
License titles used on Indiana superbills
Independent counseling in Indiana is commonly written as LMHC. Also print the letters you actually hold: LMHC, LCSW, LMFT, Licensed Psychologist, LMHCA. The board to match your number against is the Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Licensing Board. License line hint: IN LMHC #.
Indiana uses LMHC (and LMHCA for associates). The state is in the first group of Counseling Compact operational members.
Telehealth coding (national rules, used in Indiana)
In-office sessions use place of service 11 and no telehealth modifier. Video visits with the client at home use POS 10 and modifier 95. If the client is not at home, use POS 02. Audio-only, when the payer allows it, is modifier 93. Do not pair POS 11 with modifier 95.
Sales tax on therapy in Indiana
Therapy services are generally exempt from Indiana sales tax. This generator defaults tax to zero. Add a note, not a tax engine, if your situation is unusual (retail products, groups billed as events, etc.).
Interstate compacts (verify before you practice)
- Counseling Compact: Operational / issuing privileges
- PSYPACT (psychologists): Active
- Social Work Compact: Not a member
Enacted is not the same as operational. A compact privilege does not replace documenting the license or privilege you used on the date of service.
What is LMHCA?
Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate — pre-independent. Identify the supervisor if you issue a superbill during the associate period.
What to put on a Indiana superbill
- Your legal name, LMHC or other credential, practice address, phone
- NPI (Type 1) and EIN or SSN as tax ID
- Indiana license number as printed by the Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Licensing Board
- Client name, date of birth, member ID if they want reimbursement
- Each date of service, POS, CPT (90834 / 90837 / 90791 are the usual set), ICD-10, fee, amount paid
Orientation only — not billing, tax, or legal advice. Payer rules beat this page.
Indiana behavioral health clinicians use invoices for cash-pay clients and superbills so clients can seek out-of-network (OON) reimbursement. This generator creates either document in the browser with Indiana defaults: LMHC as the primary counseling title, LMHCA for associates, an IN LMHC # license hint, and standard NPI, CPT, ICD-10, and place-of-service fields. The flow is browser-only—no PHI upload.
Select Indiana when your license or compact privilege and the client’s location for the session authorize Indiana practice. Print the exact credential shown on your Professional Licensing Agency (PLA) verification. This page is documentation support only, not legal, billing, or tax advice.
License titles that belong on the form
Indiana’s independent mental health counseling title is Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC). Pre-independent clinicians use Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate (LMHCA). Do not print LMHC during the associate period.
Other titles commonly used on Indiana superbills:
- LCSW — Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- LMFT — Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
- Licensed Psychologist — psychology license under Indiana psychology regulation
Exact credential dropdown strings:
`LMHC` · `LCSW` · `LMFT` · `Licensed Psychologist` · `LMHCA`
Match PLA’s public profile. If you hold a supervisor designation, you may note it in the notes field; the credential line itself should still show LMHC, LCSW, LMFT, Licensed Psychologist, or LMHCA as appropriate. Associates who issue superbills should identify the supervisor when the payer asks.
Board, license number, lookup
Counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and related behavioral health licenses are under the Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Licensing Board, administered through the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency (PLA). Public verification is available via myLicense eVerification.
Copy the license number exactly as PLA displays it. The generator hint IN LMHC # is a counselor-focused cue; other professions paste their own PLA number in the same field.
Include Type 1 NPI (Type 2 for groups), EIN/SSN as required, and a complete practice address. Taxonomy codes go in notes or electronic claims when requested.
Interstate practice: Counseling Compact / PSYPACT / SW compact
Counseling Compact — operational. Indiana is among the live privilege states on counselingcompact.gov. LMHCs licensed by Indiana who live in Indiana may apply for privileges in other live compact states; counselors from other live states may obtain privileges to practice in Indiana. Associates (including LMHCA) are not eligible for privileges. Confirm both states are live before each interstate episode.
PSYPACT — yes. Indiana participates for psychologists with required ASPPB authorizations. PSYPACT does not authorize LMHC, LCSW, or LMFT practice.
Social Work Licensure Compact — not listed as enacted on the official jurisdictions roster (as of retrieval). Indiana does not appear on swcompact.org’s Compact Jurisdictions list. Earlier legislative filings (for example SB 163) should not be treated as enactment. Multistate SW licenses are unavailable in any event until the commission’s data system is operational—verify swcompact.org before relying on SW compact mobility.
Telehealth + place of service
Use POS 10 when the patient is at home, or POS 02 for telehealth elsewhere. Add modifier 95 when the payer’s guide requires it for synchronous video. POS 11 is in-person office care only.
Interstate telehealth requires Indiana licensure, a live Counseling Compact privilege, PSYPACT authority for psychologists, or another lawful pathway. Print the credential and number that actually authorize the encounter.
Sales tax on therapy invoices
Indiana Department of Revenue Sales Tax Information Bulletin #48 states that rendering professional services by a licensed practitioner is not subject to Indiana sales tax, and a practitioner need not register as a retail merchant solely for professional services. Leave the invoice sales tax at $0 for clinical session fees.
If you separately sell taxable tangible personal property (for example retail supplies billed apart from the professional fee), you may need retail-merchant registration and must collect sales tax on those separately stated charges. Confirm with DOR or a tax professional.
How to fill the Indiana generator
- Select Superbill or Invoice.
- Set jurisdiction to IN.
- Enter provider name; choose LMHC (default) or LMHCA / LCSW / LMFT / Licensed Psychologist.
- Enter NPI, tax ID, and PLA license number using the IN LMHC # hint.
- Add client identifiers only as needed for OON claims.
- Enter DOS, CPT, ICD-10, units, fees, and payments.
- For telehealth, set POS 10 or 02 and modifier 95 when required.
- Keep sales tax $0 on session fees.
- Download the PDF locally.
Documentation tips for Indiana OON claims
Commercial payers processing Indiana OON superbills typically look for consistency across the rendering name, LMHC/LMHCA credential, PLA license number, and NPI registry record. If you recently upgraded from LMHCA to LMHC, update the PDF credential immediately—do not leave “associate” language on independent claims.
When practicing in Indiana under a Counseling Compact privilege issued from another live home state, print your home-state license and the Indiana privilege details from CompactConnect (privilege number and remote state) in notes so the payer can see why an Indiana-located client was served. Privileges are not a substitute for documenting medical necessity, CPT units, or ICD-10 specificity.
Cash-pay invoices can omit diagnosis codes if the client does not need them, but superbills almost always need ICD-10 and CPT. Keep unit counts aligned with session length (for example 90834 vs 90837) per the payer’s coding policies—not per marketing preferences.
Two worked Indiana examples
Indiana's paperwork runs through the Professional Licensing Agency — PLA — and its distinctive traps are the LMHC/LMHCA tier split and a compact status that is genuinely operational, not merely enacted. The two documents below come from a fictional Indianapolis practice: one private-pay invoice, one out-of-network superbill. All identifiers are placeholders.
Example 1 — an in-office private-pay Indiana invoice
An LMHC sees a self-pay client for weekly 60-minute sessions in the office. No insurer is involved, so the document is an invoice — services, dates, charges, payments — and the diagnosis column can stay empty.
| Date of service | Service | CPT | POS | Charge | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2 | Individual psychotherapy, 60 min | 90837 | 11 | $145.00 | $145.00 |
| Apr 9 | Individual psychotherapy, 60 min | 90837 | 11 | $145.00 | $145.00 |
| Apr 16 | Individual psychotherapy, 60 min | 90837 | 11 | $145.00 | $145.00 |
| Apr 23 | Individual psychotherapy, 60 min | 90837 | 11 | $145.00 | $145.00 |
| Sales tax (see below) | $0.00 | ||||
| Total | $580.00 | $580.00 | |||
POS 11 is correct for office sessions. The tax line reads $0.00 because services rendered by a licensed practitioner are not subject to Indiana sales tax under DOR Information Bulletin #48. The credential is LMHC, Indiana's independent mental health counseling title, and the license field follows the IN LMHC # hint — copy the number exactly as PLA's myLicense eVerification displays it.
Example 2 — a telehealth out-of-network superbill
A second client in Bloomington has a PPO and attends weekly by video from home. The document must satisfy an adjuster's checklist, so it becomes a superbill: the invoice fields plus diagnosis, telehealth coding, and the complete provider identity block.
| Date of service | CPT | Modifier | POS | ICD-10 | Charge | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3 | 90791 | 95 | 10 | F33.1 | $175.00 | $175.00 |
| Jul 10 | 90837 | 95 | 10 | F33.1 | $145.00 | $145.00 |
| Jul 17 | 90837 | 95 | 10 | F33.1 | $145.00 | $145.00 |
| Jul 24 | 90837 | 95 | 10 | F33.1 | $145.00 | $145.00 |
| Total | $610.00 | $610.00 | ||||
The client joined from home, so POS 10 applies — telehealth from anywhere else would take 02, and 11 would falsely claim an office visit. Modifier 95 flags synchronous telemedicine for the plans that require it. The intake bills 90791; the 60-minute follow-ups bill 90837.
The provider block carries the rendering name with LMHC, the license number copied verbatim from PLA's myLicense eVerification, NPI, practice address, and tax ID. If the clinician held a supervisor designation, that belongs in the notes field — the credential line itself still shows LMHC. The paid column is populated because OON reimbursement repays actual expenditures.
Both parties were in Indiana, so the state license sufficed. Indiana is among the operational Counseling Compact states — one of the early live jurisdictions — so an Indiana LMHC can hold privileges in other live compact states, and counselors from live states can hold privileges for Indiana clients. Associates are outside that pathway entirely: an LMHCA prints the associate credential and identifies the supervisor when the plan asks.
Common mistakes on Indiana superbills
- Printing LMHC while holding LMHCA. The Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate credential is the supervised tier. Disclose LMHCA and identify the supervisor when the plan asks — do not borrow the independent title early.
- Putting a supervisor designation on the credential line. The credential line shows LMHC; a supervisor designation belongs in notes, not in place of the license title.
- Assuming compact privileges cover associates. Indiana's operational Counseling Compact status extends to independently licensed counselors — an LMHCA is not a privilege holder.
- Coding telehealth as POS 11. Use 10 for a client at home and 02 for telehealth elsewhere. POS 11 describes an office visit.
- Adding a sales-tax line. Services by licensed practitioners are not subject to Indiana sales tax under SIB #48. Leave tax at $0 unless you separately sell taxable tangible property.
- Leaving the paid column blank. OON plans reimburse money already spent — a superbill without payments usually comes back unanswered.
FAQ
What is LMHCA?
Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate—the pre-independent counseling credential. Identify the supervisor if you issue a superbill during the associate period.
Is Indiana in the Counseling Compact?
Yes—operational. Indiana LMHCs who live in Indiana can apply for privileges in other live states; verify the map first.
Is Indiana in the Social Work Compact?
Not on the official Compact Jurisdictions list as of this pack’s retrieval date. Do not assume SW multistate mobility.
Does Indiana tax therapy?
Professional services by licensed practitioners are generally not sales-taxable. Leave tax at $0 unless you sell taxable goods separately.
What do OON payers want?
Name, LMHC/LMHCA/LCSW/etc., NPI, Indiana license number, address, DOS, CPT, ICD-10, POS, charges, and amount paid.
Why these sources matter
Every factual claim on this page traces back to a primary source: Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Licensing Board, the official interstate-compact commissions, and Indiana's own tax authority. That matters because out-of-network billing guidance ages badly — license titles get renamed, compacts add members, and taxable-service lists get amended. Secondhand summaries lag those changes by months. The links below are the records themselves, with the date each was checked, so you can re-verify anything here before you rely on it for a claim.
References
- Board. Retrieved 2026-09-14. in.gov
- License lookup. Retrieved 2026-09-14. mylicense.in.gov
- Counseling Compact (live states including Indiana). Retrieved 2026-09-14. counselingcompact.gov
- Compact jurisdictions list. Retrieved 2026-09-14. counselingcompact.gov
- Social Work Compact jurisdictions. Retrieved 2026-09-14. swcompact.org
- Tax (Indiana DOR SIB #48 – medical profession). Retrieved 2026-09-14. in.gov
Disclaimer
Not legal, billing, coding, insurance, or tax advice. Verify with the Behavioral Health and Human Services Licensing Board / PLA, compact commissions, the Indiana Department of Revenue, and each payer before interstate practice or claim submission.
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