Looking for a coding resource for behavioral health therapists? It’s here. This video was recorded before CMS added Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors to enroll in Medicare. These professions aren’t noted but the are updated on the slide. Therapists use CPT® codes to describe what services they perform and ICD-10 codes to […]
Archives for March 2021
Defining Problems Using the E/M Guidelines
The first element of MDM is the number and complexity of problems addressed CodingIntel’s members-only webinars on auditing E/M services include poll questions, and looking at the poll results during our webinars, I think there is some confusion about the definition of problems. Some people selected self-limited problems for cases in which the patient had […]
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. Beginning January of 2021, when billing an office visit, select the level of visit based on medical decision making, not time. If medication management is the only service performed on that date, the clinician can […]