CPT Knowledgebase - Jul 6, 2021

If a physician performs psychotherapy during an E/M service, and the length of the psychotherapy does not meet the minimum time threshold (ie, 16 minutes), may the time spent for psychotherapy be added to the time spent on the E/M service (if using total time to select the level of E/M service code)?

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