Preventive Service: G0436, G0437 Seal Your Asymptomatic Tobacco Use Preventive Counseling Coding

Reserve codes 99406-99407 for symptomatic counseling claims.

When an asymptomatic Medicare patient who uses tobacco presents to your office, make sure you're reporting expanded smoking and tobacco-use cessation counseling codes -- G0436 and G0437 -- to ethically recoup documented counseling time.

Check out some tips on what you need to know to code and bill for these services:

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- Published on 2011-12-19