Service Encounter Reporting Instructions (SERI)
Want to know when the SERI guide is updated?
Current instructions
- SERI v2025.2 (effective July 1, 2025, unless otherwise specified)
- Crisis code guide for private insurance plans (updated October 7, 2024)
Previous instructions (July 2021-January 2025)
- SERI v2025 (effective January 1, 2025, unless otherwise specified)
- SERI v2025.1 interim guidance (effective January 1, 2025, unless otherwise specified)
- SERI v2024.1 interim guidance (effective July 1, 2024, unless otherwise specified)
- SERI v2024.1 (effective on or before July 1, 2024 unless otherwise specified on page 139)
- SERI v2024 (effective on or before January 1, 2024)
- SERI interim guidance (effective January 11, 2024)
- SERI v2023 (effective on or before January 1, 2023)
- SERI interim guidance (effective July 19, 2023)
- SERI interim guidance (effective May 15, 2023)
- SERI v2022 (effective on or before July 1, 2022)
- SERI v2021 (effective July 1, 2021)
IMC SERI interim guidance
Previous guidance (July 2013-July 2021)
- SERI v2019.1 (effective July 1, 2019)
- SERI v2018.1 (effective July 1, 2018)
- SERI v201705.3 (effective April 1, 2018)
- SERI v201705.2 (effective January 1, 2018)
- SERI v201705.01 (effective October 1, 2017)
- SERI_v201705.0 (effective July 1, 2017)
- SERI_v201611.0 (effective January 1, 2017)
- SERI v201605.0 (effective July 1, 2016)
- SERI v201602.1 (effective April 1, 2016)
- SERI v201511.0 (effective January 2016)
- SERI v201505.0 (effective July 1, 2015)
- SERI v201411.2 (effective January 1, 2015)
- SERI Summary of Changes - Part One
- SERI Summary of Changes - Part Two
- SERI v201402.0 (effective May 1, 2014)
- SERI v201308.4 (effective July 1, 2013)
Training
2025 SERI various billing guides for behavioral health providers
- Tuesday, April 8 Applicability of SERI and Various Behavioral Health Billing Guides Webinar Slides
- Tuesday, April 8 Handout on Applicability of SERI and Various Behavioral Health Billing Guides
2016 SERI BHO webinar presentation
Resources
- CPT and reimbursement (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry [AACAP])