Coding and Payment Guide for Behavioral Health Services 2015

The Coding and Payment Guide for Behavioral Health Services is your one-stop coding, billing, and documentation guide to submitting claims with greater precision and efficiency. This guide has the latest 2015 specialty-specific ICD-9-CM, HCPCS Level II, and CPT code sets along with Medicare payer information, CCI edits, helpful code descriptions, and clinical definitions.

Key Features:

Increase coding efficiency. All CPT code information is included on one page for quick and easy look-up.

Prevent claim denials and stay up-to-date with Medicare payer information. Review Medicare Pub. 100 references containing information linked to HCPCS Level II and
CPT codes tailored to behavioral health services, to prepare cleaner claims before submission.

Avoid confusion with easy-to-understand descriptions. Includes clear explanations of procedures represented by CPT codes, along with clinical definitions and
ICD-9-CM code explanations specific to behavioral health services.

Improve the precision of ICD-9-CM code selection. Prevent claim denials often caused by incorrect code selection with icons that help identify the most appropriate ICD-9-CM code.

CCI Edits by CPT code. CPT codes with associated CCI edits in a special section and quarterly updates available online.

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