General Behavioral Health Integration Care Management (July 2018)

Why This Topic Matters

It helps readers understand a newly introduced CPT care-management service for behavioral health and how it relates to broader collaborative care concepts and other E/M reporting categories.

Article Sections

1. General Behavioral Health Integration Care Management

   Introduces the 2018 CPT E/M subsection and the new behavioral health integration care management service. Summarizes the general context for the article and its relationship to other newly added behavioral health services.

2. Collaborative Care Model

   Reviews the collaborative care model framework and the general elements used to describe integrated behavioral health care. Discusses why the model supports the addition of the new CPT service.

3. Coding Tip

   Highlights a general coding reminder related to physician or qualified health care professional involvement and time accounting. The section is presented as practical guidance within the article's broader behavioral health integration discussion.

4. Clinical Example (99484)

   Presents illustrative scenarios for adults and children in a typical behavioral health integration care management context. It is paired with procedural description material that reflects common use cases for the service.

5. Description of Procedure (99484)

   Provides a broad procedural overview of how the behavioral health integration care management service is organized and supervised. The section describes the general workflow and oversight context for the service.