Additional hours of medical nutrition therapy for Medicare beneficiaries are covered if medically necessary and ordered by a physician. These additional visits are billed with HCPCS codes G0270 or G0271. Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage Plans have coverage for G0270 while most commercial plans do not cover this code.
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S9470 is an HCPCS code used for medical billing, described as “nutritional counseling, dietitian visit.” S9470 is the original nutrition counseling procedure code as it existed before the Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) codes, 97802, 97803 and 97804, were introduced. Now that the MNT codes have been around, the S9470 code is used less commonly.
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Registered dietitian are healthcare professionals who specialize in nutrition and dietary management. They are trained to provide evidence-based nutrition guidance for various health conditions through medical nutrition therapy. While dietitians cannot provide a medical diagnosis, they can provide a nutrition diagnosis. Nutrition diagnoses are made by dietitians as part of the nutrition care process.
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Dietitians are healthcare professionals, but they have not gone to medical school, therefore are not medical doctors. While doctors have more training overall, dietitians have significantly more education in nutrition specifically. Ideally, patients are working with an entire healthcare team to manage their nutrition-related medical conditions, including both a doctor and a dietitian.
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Intensive Behavioral Therapy (IBT) for cardiovascular disease is a preventive benefit for all Medicare beneficiaries, and is billed using HCPCS code G0446. This benefit can be billed annually and needs to be provided in a primary care setting by or incident to a physician or other primary care provider.
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Intensive Behavioral Therapy (IBT) for obesity is a preventive benefit for Medicare beneficiaries that have a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater. The service involves a nutrition assessment, as well as interventions on diet and exercise, for weight loss. There are many nuances and specifics for billing this benefit.
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