Thursday, September 9, 2010
Resource Center: HCPCSs
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Commonly Used CPT and HCPCS Codes for Screening Potential Buprenorphine Patients
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The billing codes that can be used for screening and initial contact with your buprenorphine patients. Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Codes used for Buprenorphine Screening
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Commonly Used CPT codes - Primary Care
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This is a table containing common CPT codes used by primary care physicians for buprenorphine treatment reimbursement. Coding is either based on complexity of service or time, with four contributing components:
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This website, funded by SAMHSA, is designed to help physicians to implement office-based buprenorphine treatment using a national network of trained physician mentors.
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Physician Clinical Support System (PCSS)
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- General information - buprenorphine
- Getting a waiver/setting up your practice
- Logistics of buprenorphine treatment
- Addiction
- Behavioral therapy
- Billing
- Complicated patients
- Contraindications
- CPT
- Diversion
- Dosing
- Drug interactions
- HCPCSs
- Hepatitis
- HIV/AIDS
- Induction
- Methadone
- Pain
- Pregnant
- Psychiatric
- Psychosocial
- Special populations
- Suboxone
- Just became waivered
- Setting up a practice
Billing for Office-Based Opioid Treatment
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This page provides the most commonly used billing codes for office-based buprenorphine treatment. Physicians who wish to go through a patient's health insurance, as opposed to fee for service, often have questions on how the various services involved in buprenorphine treatment should be billed.
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Displays the appropriate CPT and HCPCS billing codes for the different phases of buprenorphine treatment.
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The National Alliance of Advocates for Buprenorphine Treatment (NAABT)
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This is an article written by CIGNA Behavioral Health's (CBH) Senior Medical Director. It describes how CIGNA addressed reimbursement, a major barrier to physician prescription of buprenorphine, by identifying an HCPCS code (H0033) that physicians can use to bill for the services provided during buprenorphine induction visits.
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Nemecek, Doug. Behavioral Healthcare: November 2007.
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- Home
- Forums
- Training/CME
- Resources
- How-To Guides
- All How-To Guides
- Get Started Prescribing Buprenorphine
- Assess and Treat Patients with Comorbid Health Issues
- Conduct Buprenorphine Induction
- Establish and Manage a Buprenorphine Practice
- Manage Challenging Patients
- Comply with Rules, Regulations, and Recordkeeping
- Understand Insurance and Billing Issues
- Screen for Substance Abuse
- Refer Patients to an Addiction Specialist
- Review: What is Buprenorphine?
- Your Bup Site!

