Primary Care Coding Alert

Answer these questions to help you increase your coding confidence.

When the blues are a lot more than just seasonal sadness, primary care practices are often the first place patients turn for help. There’s some nuance to depression, anxiety, and other mental health codes, though.

If your coding could use a pick-me-up, take this quiz to re-energize your skills for the new year.

Question 1: How do you code a scenario where the patient has depression and anxiety? Do you code the two conditions separately, or can you just use one code?

Question 2: If the physician diagnoses an adolescent patient with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder, would you code both conditions, the bipolar disorder, or the depressive disorder?

Question 3: If behavioral health care management is provided to a patient, which behavioral health CPT^® codes would you report and why?

Think you’ve aced the quiz?