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Don't Let Your 99406 and 99407 Claims Go up in Smoke

Published on Tue Mar 17, 2020

Here are all the answers to your Medicare smoking cessation counseling guideline questions. Primary care providers spend a lot of time and energy working with patients on smoking cessation efforts, and you spend a lot of time billing 99406 (Smoking and tobacco use cessation counseling visit; intermediate, greater than 3 minutes up to 10 minutes) or, if your provider spent [...]
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