Table 1.
Code | Medicare Payment in 2020 for Code, $ † | Service Eligibility (Eligible for Code, Percentage of Medicare Beneficiaries), % | Among Medicare Beneficiaries Eligible for Service/Code |
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Billing Rate (Current Use of Billing Code, Percentage of Eligible), % | Service Provision (Received Service Regardless of Billing for Service, Percentage of Eligible), %‡ | |||
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Prevention codes | ||||
Smoking cessation counseling | 15.52–29.59 | 8.8 | 10.1 | 60.6 |
Alcohol misuse screening | 18.41 | 100 | 2.9 | 57.4 |
Alcohol misuse counseling | 26.71 | 16.0 | <1 | 25.9 |
Depression screening | 18.41 | 100 | 7.9 | 27.1 |
Behavioral counseling for cardiovascular disease | 26.71 | 74.0 | 1.4 | 46.7 |
Obesity counseling | 26.71 | 34.6 | <1 | 51.9 |
Shared decision making for lung cancer screening | 29.95 | 9.3 | 1.5 | 5.0 |
Advance care planning | 76.15–86.98 | 100 | 3.7 | 22 |
Wellness visit | 117.29–172.87 | 100 | 35.8 | – |
Coordination codes | ||||
Transitional care management | 187.67–247.94 | 22.5 | 9.3 | 43.3 |
Chronic care management | 37.89–92.39 | 65.8 | 2.3 | – |
Behavioral health integration | 48.00–156.99 | 30.2 | <1 | – |
Cognitive assessment with care planning services | 265.26 | 10.5 | 1.5 | – |
See Supplement Methods and Supplement Table 4 (available at Annals.org) for further details and sources.
For some categories of prevention and coordination services, the full range of payment amounts are shown if there are multiple codes representing initial versus subsequent service delivery, different time requirements, or complexity. See Supplement Table 4 for an itemized list of payment codes.
There is no estimate available for receipt of some services. In particular, the codes for wellness visits, chronic care management, behavioral health integration, and cognitive assessment with care planning services require a suite of services that are not routinely provided.