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Answer These 3 Questions, Quit Smoking Cessation Coding Errors for Good

Published on Fri Nov 22, 2019

Add these Medicare guidelines to your claims understanding. No matter if their patients want to quit smoking because they are experiencing health issues or not, pulmonologists are always willing to help them give up the habit. Like the act of quitting itself, however, coding this important preventive medicine service isn’t easy. But the answers to these three frequently asked questions [...]
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