Package Description

Title: Coding and Billing Behavioral and Mental Health Services

Presenter: John Burns, CPC, CPMA, CEMC

CEU Type Requested: Live or Recorded events: On-Demand, Web-Based Trainings

Number of CEUs Requested: 1 CEU

Effective Dates: April 1, 2023- April 30, 2024

10 Questions (without rationale) are provided with this application. The times described below are approximations and may vary by audience

Agenda and Outline:

• Introductions and general comments (5 minutes)
• Psychiatry codes in CPT with discussion of documentation and reporting guidelines (20 minutes)
  • Diagnostic Interviews, therapeutic procedures (e.g., psychotherapy)
• New versus established patients (5 minutes)
  • RHC and FQHC considerations (e.g., G-codes for FQHC)
• Importance of documenting time to support time-based psychotherapy codes (10 minutes)
• Telehealth including discussion of modifiers -93 and -95 (5 minutes)
• Chief complaints and documenting the various elements of Evaluation and Management services
  • Documenting Medical Decision Making (MDM) vs. Time (15 minutes)
  • When are multiple visits reportable on the same date of service
• Q&A (variable time allowances)