Behavioral Health Integration
Enhance mental health outcomes and boost revenue with general BHI services
Improve your patients' mental health outcomes, streamline operations and maximize revenue. Tap into the General BHI Services for recurring revenue streams and achieve your clinical goals profitably.
Why choose healthviewX Behavioral Health Integration?
healthviewX automates behavioral health care management, streamlining scheduling, documentation, patient enrollment, assessments, care plans, and monthly care calls. It simplifies workflows for both general BHI and CoCM models, including documentation for CPT code 99484 billing requirements.
How It Works?
Medicare General BHI Services for behavioral health conditions includes
Initial assessment or follow-up monitoring, including the use of applicable validated rating scales
Behavioral health care planning in relation to behavioral/psychiatric health problems, including revision for patients who are not progressing or whose status changes
Facilitating and coordinating treatment such as psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, counseling and/or psychiatric consultation
Continuity of care with a designated member of the care team
Key Eligibility Factors for General BHI Services
Eligible conditions for General BHI Services encompass any mental, behavioral, or psychiatric disorder, including substance use disorders, that the billing practitioner determines requires BHI care. These conditions may be pre-existing or newly diagnosed and can evolve over time. Patients do not need to have other comorbid, chronic, or medical conditions for BHI services to be provided.
BHI Key Features
Our easy to use software helps provider organizations grow their revenues through General BHI Services and manage more patients through efficient workflow automation and staff utilization.
Medicare Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Reimbursement Codes
Treating (Billing) Practitioner – A physician or non-physician practitioner (PA, NP, CNS, CNM); typically primary care, but may be of another specialty (for example, cardiology, oncology, psychiatry).
| Medicare Reimbursement Code | Description | Description | Reimbursement Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPT 99484 | At least 20 minutes of clinical staff time per calendar month | Directed by a Physician or other qualified healthcare professional time | $48 |
* FQHCs/RHCs can bill for General Behavioral Health Integration Services by adding the general care management G code, G0511.