BC Advantage - 2020 Issue 1

CPT 2020 Changes to Psychiatry Services

As of January 1, 2020, CPT made changes to the health and behavior assessment and intervention codes (96150-96155) and therapeutic interventions that focus on cognitive function (97127). If you code and audit services in this category, you must pay close attention to the changes as they include the removal and addition of time-based requirements.  For 2020, CPT added new codes for billing of health behavior intervention services. There is one new code (96156) to report health behavior assessment (HBA) or reassessment and eight new codes (96158, +96159, 96164, +96165, 96167, +96168, 96170 and +96171), four primary and four...

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