Forum - Questions & Answers

Apr 29th, 2012 - kari 10 

mental health encounter

If the primary reason a mental health provider saw a patient was for medication management but the encounter lasted 75 minutes, would this still be coded as 90862 or 90809? The last that I heard was that there is no time limit for how long the provider sees the patient when seeing him for medication management.

Apr 30th, 2012 - Jmojica05 4 

re: mental health encounter

Good Morning,

I work for a mental health clinic in the NYC area and when a psychiatrist spends more than 15min with a client, we usually use either 90805 or 90807 because there is more than med management being given.



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