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Coding for Behavioral Health Services | Webinar

Behavioral Health Coding with 2021 E/M Changes Recorded on December 17, 2020 This webinar describes CPT coding for behavioral health services, … [Read more...]

Essential documentation for medication management and psychotherapy

When providing both medication management and psychotherapy, practitioners need to document the time spent in psychotherapy and describe the therapy. … [Read more...]

Behavioral health and telemedicine

Updated May 15, 2020 Behavioral health services have long been on Medicare’s list of services that could be provided via telemedicine. However, … [Read more...]

Psychiatry Exam Cheat Sheet

Psychiatrists and psychiatric NPs and PAs often use E/M codes to report services. In addition to using a psychiatric diagnostic evaluation code, … [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...]

Overview of diagnosis coding for behavioral health services

DSM-5 From the American Psychiatric Association, “The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the handbook used by health … [Read more...]

Medication management and Psychotherapy

Medication management performed by psychiatrists and medical psychiatric nurse practitioners and physician assistants is billed with Evaluation and … [Read more...]

Medication management and psychotherapy cheatsheet

This quick reference sheet illustrates the coding and documentation requirements for medication management services with, or without … [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...]

Family and group therapy codes

Group therapy Group psychotherapy is reported with code 90853. This is not a time-based code: one unit of service should be reported for each … [Read more...]

Teaching Physician Rules – Psychiatric Services

In psychiatry if reporting time-based psychotherapy services, the time of the attending physician is the time used to select the code. For … [Read more...]

E/M frequency data for psychiatrists

CMS releases E/M frequency data annually.  A physician self-elects their specialty designation when enrolling with Medicare. This is the data for … [Read more...]

Coding Guide – Behavioral Health Services

The coding for psychiatric and psychotherapy services changed in 2013 and although that was years ago many psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse … [Read more...]

Time based rules | Behavioral health services

Psychiatrists, psychiatric NPs and psychiatric PAs provide medication management using E/M codes and psychotherapy services. There are specific rules … [Read more...]

History | Documentation Guidelines for E/M Services

This article relates to the 1995/1997 documentation guidelines, and not to office/outpatient codes 99202--99215 in 2021. Definition History is … [Read more...]

Quick Coding Cheat Sheet – Psychiatry

These quick reference sheets for evaluation and management services cover inpatient and outpatient consults, and inpatient and subsequent hospital … [Read more...]

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Insights: Changes in level of service using 2021 office visit guidelines

The American Medical Association (AMA) changed the … Read More...

Defining problems using the new 2021 office visit guidelines

The AMA has developed specific definitions for … Read More...

2021 Office Visit Coding Insights | Webinar

2021 Office Visit Coding Insights March 25, 2021 … Read More...

2021 Reimbursement: What Your Practice Needs to Know | Webinar

Recorded on February 18, 2021 @ 12:00 pm … Read More...

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Our mission is to provide accurate, comprehensive, up-to-date coding information, allowing medical practices to increase revenue, decrease coding denials and reduce compliance risk. That's what coding knowledge can do.

In 1988, CodingIntel.com founder Betsy Nicoletti started a Medical Services Organization for a rural hospital, supporting physician practice. She has been a self-employed consultant since 1998. She estimates that in the last 20 years her audience members number over 28,400 at in person events and webinars. She has had 2,500 meetings with clinical providers and reviewed over 43,000 medical notes. She knows what questions need answers and developed this resource to answer those questions. For more about Betsy visit www.betsynicoletti.com.

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