Top Tobacco Counseling Claim Denials and How to Avoid/Correct Them

Providers, are your claims being denied for tobacco counseling services utilizing codes 99406 and 99407?

In order to assist our providers in getting claims processed correctly, we have created a job aid that includes the top tobacco counseling claim denial reasons along with instructions on how to avoid those claim denials.

This information provides you with:

• the error reason code;
• a description of the error;
• the error type;
• details that include steps you can take to avoid/correct the error; and
• easy to access resources.

Visit Top Tobacco Counseling Claim Errors to quickly identify the information you need to avoid processing delays and get your claims processed correctly the first time.
 

Posted 4/13/2023