Mind the Rules: Behavioral Health Coding That Holds Up to Audits
Master behavioral health coding, telehealth billing, and how to avoid recoupments. Covers CPT and ICD-10 rules for tele-mental health and on-site billing, complete with a compliance checklist to keep your practice audit-ready.
Webinar Objectives
- Apply correct CPT and ICD-10 coding rules for tele-mental health and on-site behavioral health visits.
- Identify telehealth billing requirements that differ from in-person behavioral health billing.
- Recognize documentation patterns that lead to payer recoupments.
- Use a compliance checklist to keep behavioral health billing audit-ready.
Webinar Recording
Mind the Rules: Behavioral Health Coding That Holds Up to Audits
Meet Your Speaker
Sonal Patel
Healthcare Inspired Consultant
**Sonal Patel, BA, CPMA, CPC, CMC, ICDCM**, is a nationally recognized healthcare compliance strategist, auditor, educator, author, and speaker with more than 13 years of experience in medical coding, billing, auditing, reimbursement, and regulatory compliance. As CEO and Principal Strategist of **SP Collaborative, LLC**, Sonal works with healthcare organizations, medical practices, physicians, coders, auditors, consultants, and compliance professionals to strengthen coding accuracy, reimbursement integrity, and compliance education. Sonal’s career has given her a broad perspective on the business of medicine. She began in medical billing, later worked within patient business services at a nationally recognized cancer hospital, and spent nearly six years supporting healthcare attorneys with complex reimbursement matters. Her work today focuses on the intersection of documentation, coding, auditing, payer requirements, regulatory compliance, denials, and revenue integrity. Sonal is also the creator and host of **Paint The Medical Picture Podcast**, a nationally followed healthcare business podcast covering medical coding, billing, auditing, compliance, reimbursement, fraud, waste and abuse, and emerging industry changes. A frequent presenter and industry contributor, she is known for translating changing regulations and complex compliance issues into practical guidance healthcare professionals can use in their day-to-day work.