Smoking and Tobacco-Use Cessation Counseling
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will cover two new levels of counseling for smoking cessation (intermediate and intensive). This decision does not modify existing coverage for minimal cessation counseling (defined as 3 minutes or less in duration) which is already considered to be covered as part of each Evaluation and Management (E/M) visit and is not separately billable.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: May 20, 2005
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