tci Part B Insider - 2010 Issue 30

Part B Coverage: Medicare to Cover Tobacco Cessation Counseling for All Smoking Beneficiaries

New coverage announcement is triumph for physicians who haven't collected in the past.If you've been writing off tobacco cessation counseling as non-payable, it's time to change your tune.In the past, you could collect for codes 99406-99407 (Smoking and tobacco use cessation counseling visit...) if you performed tobacco cessation counseling for a patient with a tobacco-related disease or with signs or symptoms of one. But on Augt. 25, CMS announced that "under new coverage, any smoker covered by Medicare will be able to receive tobacco cessation counseling from a qualified physician or other Medicare-recognized practitioner who can...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Part B Insider.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI’s Part B Insider will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4800 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles

This feature is currently unavailable for online purchase. For more information, please call 801-770-4203 or Contact Us.

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.