The guidelines for selecting office visit codes changed in January, reducing the documentation burden on practitioners. Psychiatrists and psychiatric … [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...]
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...]
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...]
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 Reference 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...]
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...]
Overview of diagnosis coding for behavioral health services
Match diagnoses on the claim form to those listed in assessment The diagnosis codes on the claim form should match those in the note. If the … [Read more...]
Medication management and psychotherapy reference sheet
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...]
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...]
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...]
Screening codes guide – G0442, G0443, G0444, G0446, G0447
Medicare pays for some screening services for its beneficiaries, using HCPCS codes. These screening codes are time-based HCPCS codes with relatively … [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...]
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 Reference Sheet – Psychiatry
This quick reference sheet for evaluation and management services cover inpatient and outpatient consults, and inpatient and subsequent hospital … [Read more...]