News Report | November 11, 2018
New AMA CPT Codes To Report ABA To Health Plans Go Live January 1, 2019
The American Medical Association (AMA) has approved eight new Category I, and two revised Category III Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes to report applied behavior analysis (ABA) services (termed "adaptive behavior assessment and treatment services") to health insurance plans. These codes go live January 1, 2019.
The new codes are detailed in the "Adaptive Behavior Assessment and Treatment Code Conversion Table," by the Virginia Association for Behavior Analysis. All new codes are per 15-minute increments. The new and revised codes include:
- 0362T: Behavior identification supporting assessment – technician time.
- 0373T: Adaptive behavior treatment with protocol modification . . .