According to 2012 HCPCS, here are the screening codes:
G0442, Annual alcohol misuse screening, 15 minutes
G0443 Brief-face-to-face behavioral counseling for alchohol misuse, 15 minutes. See CMS 100-04-Chapter 18, 180.1-180.5 for details.
No MedLearn Matters article on this yet.
G0444 Annual Depression Screening, 15 minutes. See Medlearn Matters MM7637 for details
G0446 Intensive Behavioral Therapy to reduce CVD Risk, bi-annual, 15 minutes. See MedLearn Matters MM7636.
G0447 Face-to-face behavioral counseling for obesity, 15 mnutes
G0449 Annual face-to-face obesity screening, 15 minutes (no current MLM article on these two, as of this a.m.).
Also new is the G0445, high intensity behavioral counseling to prevent Sexually transmitted infections, bi-annually for 30 minutes. I haven't seen a MLM article on this, but I haven't really looked....anyone?
I don't have a fee schedule or RVUs for these yet...does anyone have this info? This will determine whether my docs want to build EHR templates to support the billing of these kinds of visits. ROI, and all of that, you know!
Pam