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2084P0015X

2084P0015X — Psychosomatic Medicine Physician

Grouping
Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
Classification
Psychiatry & Neurology
Specialization
Psychosomatic Medicine
Section
Individual

Definition

Psychosomatic Medicine is subspecialty in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders and symptoms in complex medically ill patients. This subspecialty includes treatment of patients with acute or chronic medical, neurological, obstetrical or surgical illness in which psychiatric illness is affecting their medical care and/or quality of life such as HIV infection, organ transplantation, heart disease, renal failure, cancer, stroke, traumatic brain injury, high-risk pregnancy and COPD, among others. Patients also may be those who have a psychiatric disorder that is the direct consequence of a primary medical condition, or a somatoform disorder or psychological factors affecting a general medical condition. Psychiatrists specializing in Psychosomatic Medicine provide consultation-liaison services in general medical hospitals, attend on medical psychiatry inpatient units, and provide collaborative care in primary care and other outpatient settings.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.

Other codes under Psychiatry & Neurology

These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.

NUCC taxonomy25.1