Wiki Tobacco Cessation Codes

[dmrussell]

I have spent hours researching this and can't find anything: I know that the documentation needs: The Patient's tobacco use; The Patient's conditions adversely affected by tobacco use or the therapeutic agent affected by tobacco use; the amount of time spent on tobacco cessation counseling and the context in which it was provided.

Now for my question: Does the conditions that is adversely affected by tobacco need to be linked to the counseling or just because they have it and it's in assessment, does it automatically link to the counseling? Other words does the physicians need to state that the patient's hypertension is adversely affected by tobacco use?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[annielou]

Tobacco Cessation codes

Our providers do not document in the smoking cessation counseling note how smoking affects their chronic problems. They document what they advised the patient, if they prescribed anything for tobacco cessation, and the amount of time spent counseling, which determines the CPT code used.