What Are the 4 New CPT Codes for Collaborative Care a Medical Billing Company Must Know? It is important to ensure that mental health and behavioral health are addressed in a treatment strategy. Mental health professionals collaborate with primary care providers for enhanced clinical outcomes.
Have a look at the four new CPT codes for collaborative care.
99492: Initial psychiatric collaborative care management It includes: Outreach to and engagement in the treatment of a patient. Initial assessment of the patient. Review by the psychiatric consultant. Entering the patient in a registry and tracking patient follow-up and progress using the registry. Provision of brief interventions using evidence-based techniques.
99493: Subsequent psychiatric collaborative care management. It includes: Tracking patient follow-up and progress using the registry. Participation in weekly caseload consultation with the psychiatric consultant. Ongoing collaboration with and coordination of the patient’s mental care with the treating physician or other qualified health care professional. Additional review of progress and recommendations for changes in treatment, as indicated. Provision of brief interventions using evidence-based techniques. Monitoring of patient outcomes using validated rating scales; and relapse prevention planning with patients.
99494: Initial or subsequent psychiatric collaborative care management, each additional 30 minutes in a calendar month of behavioral health care manager activities, in consultation with a psychiatric consultant, and directed by the treating physician or other qualified health care professional. 99484: It is used to bill monthly services other than CoCM.
Healthcare practitioners can seek medical coding services to correctly code for the services provided.
Collaborative care model can considerably reduce the treatment costs. The holistic approach of treatment gives excellent treatment outcomes.
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