Diving into Documentation, Billing, and Coding: Behavioral Health Integration
Monday, September 29, 2025
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Description:
This second webinar in a two-part series delves into the deeper challenges related to behavioral health integration (BHI) documentation, billing, and coding in health centers. This webinar will review current Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) billing rules and strategies for appropriate documentation and coding of integrated behavioral health services in a community health center setting. Speakers will also address documentation, billing, and coding considerations for substance use disorder treatment and remote delivery of behavioral health services.
Earn 1 Behavioral Health continuing education credit (CEUs) for attending this webinar.
Objectives:
Participants in this webinar will be able to:
- Utilize key CMS references effectively to stay updated on coding changes and compliance standards.
- Explain the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting specific to BHI.
- Identify scenarios of overlap between medical and behavioral health related to CMS-covered preventive services for appropriate coding.
- Apply CPT, HCPCS-II, and ICD-10-CM codes to appropriately code and bill for medication assisted treatment with concurrent behavioral health diagnostic/therapeutic services
- Demonstrate the ability to apply evaluation and management (E/M) guidelines in different clinical scenarios, including telehealth and virtual communication services.
- Evaluate the documentation requirements for each type of care management service.
Presenter:
Gary Lucas, Vice President of Research and Development, ArchProCoding, provides strategic and tactical direction as well as maintaining and administering ArchProCoding’s Rural Health Clinic and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) certification programs. Mr. Lucas offers an extensive background in education and training in the health care industry, having conducted more than 1,900 in-person, national seminars on medical records documentation for physician and outpatient-based medical centers dealing with professional coding, medical billing, Medicare compliance, and practice management in 46 states over nearly 30 years.