One Psychiatrist's Quest to Understand New CPT Codes for 2013

It wasn’t until my private response to Steve came back to my own e-mail in-box that I realized our conversation was not private, but that I had posted my temper tantrum to the 190 psychiatrists on our psychiatric society’s listserv. It’s just not the best way to start a weekend.  

The Maryland Psychiatric Society will be holding seminars to teach the new codes, and perhaps after that first session on Dec. 4, I will have something more helpful to say. As I was lamenting the fact that it would take me 2.5 hours to learn to code a psychotherapy session, a Facebook post came in from a colleague in another state where the training session took 6 hours.   

I’ll be sharing the rest of my quest to understand the new CPT codes here and on our main Shrink Rap blog. Please do subscribe to my Twitter feed and if I can, I will live tweet the Dec. 4 session, scheduled for 6 p.m., using hashtag #cpt.  If you’d like to register for one of the Maryland Psychiatric Society’s five CPT coding seminars, you can contact the staff at mps@mdpsych.org or 410-625-0232.  

—Dinah Miller, M.D.

DR. MILLER is co-author of Shrink Rap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work.  She is prone to occasional ranting.

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