DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 9 (September)

All tobacco-using patients are now eligible for cessation services

There are tens of millions of dollars in reimbursements now available to physicians who provide at least three minutes of tobacco cessation counseling to patients. Your practice will be paid for cessation services (99406 and 99407) for any Medicare patient who smokes or uses tobacco, CMS states in an Aug. 25 coverage decision memo. Previously, CMS would only cover the service when the patient had a disease related to his tobacco use, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

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