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Learning Objectives

• Identify core CPT psychotherapy codes commonly used in mental health practice and describe general best-practice principles for their appropriate use.
• Explain the criteria for use of the Interactive Complexity add-on code and additional Crisis Psychotherapy time codes, including when these codes are and are not clinically appropriate.
• Apply CPT coding principles to clinical case examples in order to determine accurate coding and avoid common billing errors.
• Describe documentation elements necessary to support standard psychotherapy codes, interactive complexity, and crisis services in a manner consistent with ethical and compliance standards.

Agenda

Live event Instructor(s)

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  Gina M. Pasquale, PsyD

  Executive Director, Maps Counseling Services

  Gina M. Pasquale, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Executive Director of Maps Counseling Services, a nonprofit outpatient mental health center in New Hampshire. She is an affiliate faculty member in the Clinical Psychology Department at Antioch University New England, where she teaches ethics and professional practice. Dr. Pasquale maintains an active clinical role and brings a practitioner’s perspective to her trainings, emphasizing ethical decision-making, defensible documentation, and CPT billing practices grounded in real-world mental health care.

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