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Capture Preparation and Administration For Allergen Immunotherapy

Published on Thu May 24, 2012

Question: Our pulmonologist recently saw an established allergic asthma patient whose symptoms were not controlled adequately by the previous medications that he was taking. Our pulmonologist carefully assessed the patient's previous history, allergy history, medications and symptoms and conducted a thorough evaluation of the patient's asthma, changing the medications. After the assessment, our pulmonologist provided the patient's scheduled allergen immunotherapy. He provided a single injection of the allergen extract and observed the patient for about 30 minutes before releasing the patient and asking him to come back for another injection every week (as scheduled) until specified. How do I report this procedure that our pulmonologist performed?Georgia SubscriberAnswer: You will need to report the allergen immunotherapy using the CPT® code 95115 (Professional services for allergen immunotherapy not including provision of allergenic extracts; single injection) as your pulmonologist provided only one injection to the patient. If two injections were provided to the [...]
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