Ensure that you and your office staff are compensated accordingly for time spent discussing tobacco use and/or exposure to secondhand smoke during patient encounters. These articles describe appropriate coding for your services:
- AAP Tobacco Coding Fact Sheet
This resource is a helpful tool for health care providers and staff to ensure appropriate coding for their work in tobacco prevention and control counseling. Created by American Academy of Pediatrics coding experts, this fact sheet offers CPT codes for inpatient and outpatient settings, as well as ICD-10-CM codes for medical diagnoses, comorbid diseases and related supplemental codes. At the end of the coding section are short scenarios with applicable codes and diagnoses, one of which includes use of e-cigarettes. - How to get paid for smoking cessation counseling, AAP News, February 2012
- Coding for Office-Based Smoking Cessation Services, AAP News, January 2010
- Guidance on using behavior change intervention codes, AAP News, August 2008
- Coding and Reimbursement Resources, AAP News, October 2005
- PACT Reimbursement for Smoking Cessation Therapy Guidelines
Last Updated
05/28/2021
Source
American Academy of Pediatrics