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The Behavioral health coding resource (PDF) provides physician practices and their care teams with a list of key Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes that can be used (as deemed medically appropriate) when administering behavioral health screening, treatment and/or preventative services.
Download your copy of our Mental Health CPT Code Cheat Sheet in PDF or image formats. Updated in 2024 with the newest CPT codes for mental health billing.
CPT codes are five digit numeric codes describing everything from surgery to radiology to psychotherapy. CPT Codes are different from Diagnosis Codes or ICD10 F-Codes for billing and coding your insurance claims. Here’s our mental health diagnosis code list if you need to look one up.
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT codes) are used by psychologists and other mental health professionals to bill for their services to a private or government insurance provider.
Learn which Psychiatry CPT codes to use when doing your mental health insurance billing. Take advantage of our Osychiatry CPT codes cheat sheet PDF.
All mental health professionals including psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses and social workers delivering psychotherapy services use the same applicable CPT codes when billing clients and filing health insurance claims with third-party payers.
Individual psychotherapy CPT codes should be used only when the focus of treatment involves individual psychotherapy. Psychiatric service CPT codes should not be used when other CPT codes such as an evaluation and management (E/M) service or pharmacological codes is more appropriate.
Interprofessional Telephone/Internet/Electronic Health Record Consultation Codes – The billing guide and patient pamphlet provide guidance to psychiatrists and their patients on the use of the non-face-to-face consultation codes ("curbside consults"). Introduced in 2019, Medicare began paying for these in 2020.
This resource outlines key CPT® codes that physicians and their care teams can use (as appropriate) when administering behavioral health screening, treatment, and/or preventative services [telemedicine-related codes highlighted with a ].
In the realm of mental health, CPT codes play a crucial role in accurately describing and billing for psychological services. Imagine, if you will, a world without CPT codes. It would be chaos! Therapists would be left scratching their heads, trying to explain their services to insurance companies using interpretive dance or smoke signals.