AMA CPT® Assistant - 2020 Issue 8 (August)

Health Behavior Assessment and Intervention (August 2020)

August 2020 pages 3-5 Health Behavior Assessment and Intervention The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2020 code set includes several changes in the Health Behavior Assessment and Intervention subsection in the Medicine section. Nine codes were added (96156-96171) and six codes were deleted (96150-96155). The subsection heading was revised, and numerous parenthetical notes were added or revised throughout this subsection to provide instructions on the proper reporting of these assessments and interventions. Additional guidelines were also added to describe the differences between assessment and interventions, including definitions for health behavior assessment and health behavior intervention. The information that follows...

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