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Keep Your Flu Shot Coding on Track With This Handy Chart
Published on Mon Oct 20, 2014
Here’s a resource you don’t want to be without when you’re billing flu shots this season. Take the guesswork out of matching up brand name vaccines to the corresponding CPT® code for 2015, with this chart from Betty Anne Price, BSN, RN, President and CEO of PRCS, Inc. in Palmetto, FL.
Table Adapted from http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/vaccines.htm
Note: IIV3 = Inactive Influenza Vaccine, Trivalent
IIV4 = Inactive Influenza Vaccine, Quadrivalent.
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