Preventive Medicine: Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use

Procedure Codes
99406: Smoking and tobacco use cessation counseling visit; intermediate, greater than 3 minutes up to 10 minutes
99407: Smoking and tobacco use cessation counseling visit; intensive, greater than 10 minutes

ICD-10-CM
99406-99407: No specific diagnoses

Frequency
99406-99407: 2 attempts a year, that may include up to 4 sessions each.

Additional Information
99406-99407

• These can be paid regardless of whether or not the beneficiary shows any signs or symptoms of tobacco related diseases or conditions
• They must be competent and alert at the time of counseling
• These procedure codes above replaced G0436 and G0437, (do not report these G-codes).