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...]