For CSWs, MFTs, and MHCs to bill Medicare directly for CHI services personally performed for the diagnosis or treatment of mental illness, we proposed in the CY 2026 PFS proposed rule to allow for CPT code 90791 (Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation) or the Health Behavior Assessment and Intervention (HBAI) services that CPT codes 96156, 96158, 96159, 96164, 96165, 96167, and 96168 (and any subsequent HBAI codes) to serve as initiating visits for CHI, as we believe these codes are the most analogous codes to the E/M codes that are currently used as initiating visits for CHI that are utilized by practitioners in a specialty whose covered services are limited by statute to services for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness
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Heffernan M, Summers RJ, Thorburn A, Ogru E, Gianello R, Jiang W-J, et al
reported that life expectancy had continued to DECLINE and our average life expectancy was now down to 76.4 years while Japan and other European countries continued to show gains in longevity