How To Bill for And Justify Tobacco Treatment in Your Healthcare System

Lesson Materials

This one-hour webinar event to gain insights on billing practices for tobacco treatment services and strategies to advocate for a treatment program in your health system from a nationally-recognized expert.

Following the webinar, participants will be able to:

  • appropriately bill for behavioral health services for provision of tobacco treatment to patients,
  • present justification for a tobacco treatment program in their health system, and
  • understand the differences between revenue and value based programs.

Click here to download the presentation slides.

Speaker: Benjamin Toll, Ph.D.,  Professor of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina and Director of MUSC Health Tobacco Treatment Program

Dr. Benjamin Toll is a licensed clinical psychologist, a Professor of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry, the Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Public Health Sciences, and the Associate Director of Education and Training and Co-Director of the Lung Cancer Screening Program at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, and Director of the MUSC Health Tobacco Treatment Program at the Medical University of South Carolina. He specializes in clinical research on the treatment of tobacco use disorders, alcohol use disorders, and improvement of health behaviors. Dr. Toll has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, including multiple R01 grants from the National Cancer Institute, and he is an author of over 115 peer-reviewed publications relating to nicotine and tobacco research, including several clinical trials published in first tier medical and psychology journals and clinical practice guidelines and policy statements from international medical societies.

 

IMPORTANT: Once you have finished watching the video, a quiz box will appear below the video box which will allow you to complete the associated quiz.