Does Medicare cover smoking-related illnesses/disease?

Does medicare cover non-classified diseases like obesity or smoking? or only illnesses caused by them?

Although there are ICD-9 (diagnosis) codes for the various levels of obesity, it is not classified as an illness but rather a condition. There is no ICD-9 for smokers, only ICD-9s for diseases in which smoking appears to have an etiological role.

Medicare does not cover weight control for obesity nor cessation classes and/or materials for quitting smoking. They do cover the diseases that can result from them, i.e. diabetes mellitus, heart disease, emphysema, lung cancer, etc. What factor obesity and/or smoking had in the development of the disease is not a factor in reimbursement to the health care provider. Medicare does not want to set a precedent of using life style choices as a means to deny coverage for life saving treatments.

Obesity, if it is caused by a disorder in you system. Smoking, no,but emphysema yes, cancer, if you have the coverage in your ins.

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