Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 8 - Medicaid Coverage and Payment
Chapter 135 - Medicaid Coverage; Behavioral Health Services
Article 2 - Medicaid Behavioral Health Services
7 AAC 135.150 - Psychotherapy

Universal Citation: 7 AK Admin Code 135.150

Current through November 28, 2024

(a) The department will pay a community behavioral health services provider or mental health physician clinic for one or more of the following forms of psychotherapy, as coded in Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), adopted by reference in 7 AAC 160.900:

(1) insight-oriented individual psychotherapy;

(2) interactive individual psychotherapy;

(3) group psychotherapy;

(4) family psychotherapy - without recipient;

(5) family psychotherapy - with recipient;

(6) multi-family group psychotherapy.

(b) Biofeedback or relaxation therapy may be provided as an element of insight-oriented individual psychotherapy and interactive individual psychotherapy if that biofeedback or relaxation therapy is

(1) prescribed by a psychiatrist, if provided in a mental health physician clinic;

(2) prescribed by a physician or ordered by a mental health professional clinician, if provided at a community behavioral health services provider; and

(3) included in the behavioral health treatment plan as a recognized treatment or adjunct to a treatment only for the following conditions or substantially similar conditions:
(A) chronic pain syndrome;

(B) panic disorders;

(C) phobias.

(c) Family psychotherapy, with or without recipient involvement, may be provided by means of a telehealth modality.

Authority:AS 47.05.010

AS 47.07.030

AS 47.07.069

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