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Laureen: Next is my question.

Q: Please, could we do a review of behavioral health? I noticed the E/M and Psychotherapy coding algorithm that appeared in the 2014 CPT manual. Laureen asked me to mention it so that it could be gone over in the next Q&A session.

A: Let me think, we had this actually for last month but we ran out of time. The one thing that I wanted to draw your attention to, you might not have noticed in the front of CPT for this year 2014, there's this appendix XXII and it's a reprint, and I've never seen CPT do this in my years of coding. They reprinted a CPT Assistant article about this topic, so apparently there's a lot of confusion around that and they thought it would just be helpful just to reprint this and make it easy.

Basically, what changed? These are in 2013, not 2014; but the article is in the front of the book and that's what this writer was asking about. They used to divide the psych codes by outpatient and inpatient, and then further divided by all these different ways. Now, they just put them all into one category. It doesn't matter if they're inpatient or outpatient. As far as the timing goes they used to give you ranges, now they give you set numbers: 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 60 minutes.

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