Compliance Lessons from the OIG In March 2022, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report outlining errors one psychiatrist made in … [Read more...]
Coding for Behavioral Health Services by Psychologists, Social Workers and Therapists
Looking for a coding resource for behavioral health therapists? It's here. Therapists use CPT codes to describe what services they perform and … [Read more...]
Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation
There are two codes for psychiatric diagnostic evaluation. 90791 Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation 90792 Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with … [Read more...]
Psychotherapy codes
Individual psychotherapy codes are time based codes They may be reported as a stand alone service, or at the same visit as medication management … [Read more...]
Psychotherapy for patients in crisis
90839 is the code for psychotherapy for crisis; first 60 minutes. 90840 is an add-on code for each additional 30 minutes of time spent with a patient … [Read more...]
Interactive complexity | CPT® 90785
Code 90785 is an add-on code for interactive complexity and may be added on to the diagnostic psychiatric evaluation (90791, 90792), to psychotherapy … [Read more...]