Video Series 3: Billing for Dyadic Care
About
Children and families with Medi-Cal insurance can access dyadic care benefits under the Non-Specialty Mental Health services benefit. The dyadic benefit is designed for patients ages 0-20 and is only reimbursable to this age group. Typically, dyadic care is provided by another member of the healthcare team, such as a licensed behavioral health provider, or a community health worker, who works alongside a pediatric healthcare provider. In this video series, learn more about billing for dyadic care.
Contents
This series has concluded. The initial episode is listed first.
In order to begin an exploration into dyadic care services, it can be helpful to understand what key elements might be needed to work towards something sustainable. In this video, learn about the basics of dyadic care billing.
Understanding the breakdown of how FQHC billing happens for Behavioral Health services includes a special look at how reimbursement happens and is impacted based on type of billing service. In this video, the ways to maximize revenue even for same day visits is explored.
As we continue to understand this paradigm shift, moving from problem-focused to prevention-based, as well as from individual to team-based care, this video helps explain which provider types are eligible to bill for these dyadic services.
A summary of the present family therapy code is shared in this video, along with an exploration into how it might be incorporated into a clinic focused on caring for dyads, even though it is separate from the dyadic service codes.
This video offers a deep dive into each new dyadic service code, reading through what is listed in the NSMHS manual as far as what is required and what is covered, as well as discussing how to implement them.
Practice transformation is challenging and integrated behavioral health is no exception. There are potential benefits of integrated behavioral health, as explained in this video. Learn about a tool to help assess how your practice is doing.
Taking a look at provider eligibility for dyadic care services, this video dives deep into what a dyadic behavioral health provider might look like in practice. Attention is brought to the HealthySteps program and their set of competencies for specialists as a useful guide, as well as highlighting the DC 0-5 diagnostic manual and its dimensions of caregiving scale.
One of the greatest barriers many clinics face is the shortage of behavioral health staff, in particular those with early childhood experience. Here in this video, we take a look at how to analyze your present workforce, skillset, and patient load to find a schedule that could work for all. With dyadic services, it is also important to highlight the opportunities that are presented to capture adult caregivers and support their mental health needs within the well child visit, as ...