tci Part B Insider - 2014 Issue 5

Physician Note: CMS: Time Is on Your Side for Psych Billing

Revisions to CPT’s psychiatry and psychotherapy codes last year led to helpful new coding opportunities for practices—but were also wrought with errors, CMS has determined. In an effort to quell the problems that these codes were creating, the agency issued MLN Matters article SE1407 last week, which outlines the primary problems that MACs have seen with these codes. “The main error with the revised psychiatry and psychotherapy codes is the failure to document the time spent on the E/M service separately from the time spent on the add-on psychotherapy service,” CMS says in the article...

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