Timed Psychotherapy Under the Revised CPT Construct: Looking Back on the First Year of the New Billing Standards vs. the Standard of Care

The new requirement for timed billing has posed a compliance and ethical challenge for billers and clinicians alike; learn how to honor the therapist’s obligation to the patient, and the coder’s duty to verify medical necessity

Learn how to conduct chart reviews that verify adequate documentation for in-person and telemedicine encounters with patients young and old, and the caregiver’s perspectives that influence treatment plans and prognosis

A discussion of the use of experts to evaluate the indication for psychotherapy in special needs populations, and the role of “informants” in guiding the clinical judgments necessary to promote high quality care