The 16-Minute Hour: Combining Abbreviated Psychotherapy With Medication Visits. Part 3: Psychodynamic Therapy.

Abstract

Psychiatrists increasingly practice psychotherapy by integrating their therapeutic training into brief medication visits. Insurance companies reimburse this approach using the 90833 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code, which corresponds to 16 to 37 minutes of add-on psychotherapy combined with pharmacotherapy. As scholarship focused on such short-form combined therapy is scarce, this 4-part series addresses the practice gap, providing guidance to practicing professionals. This installment addresses psychodynamic psychotherapy, a deeply personalized intervention that is increasingly recognized as a modality well suited to integration with psychopharmacology.