Behavioral health medical record documentation requirements apply to all lines of business

Behavioral health medical record documentation requirements are now available online. These requirements apply across all lines of business (Blue Cross PPO, Blue Cross Medicare Plus Blue^SM PPO, BCN HMO^SM and BCN Advantage^SM).

The requirements are available on this website, on both the Blue Cross Behavioral Health page and the BCN Behavioral Health page.

Professional, hospital and facility behavioral health providers contracted with Blue Cross or BCN must follow these requirements when documenting behavioral health services provided to our members.

One set of guidelines is for applied behavior analysis services. The other set applies to non-ABA services.

For additional information on these requirements, including why they were put in place, please review the following news articles:

• In the November 2017 issue of The Record, see the article Behavioral health documentation guidelines now available.
• In the November-December 2017 issue of BCN Provider News, see the article Behavioral health documentation guidelines now available.

Posted: November 2017
Line of business: Blue Cross and Blue Care Network