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HEALTH & BEHAVIOR CODES |
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Non-physician behavioral health providers now have a more accurate way of billing for services provided to patients with a medical diagnosis. The advent of six new reimbursement codes, called Health & Behavior Codes, under the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding system dramatically changes billing for behavioral medicine services. Until now, almost all intervention codes used by non-physician behavioral health providers involved psychotherapy and required a psychiatric diagnosis. In contrast, health and behavior assessment and intervention services focus on patients whose primary diagnosis is physical in nature. Proper use of these codes may:
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