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Tread Carefully While Reporting Histamine Challenge Test and Supply

Published on Wed May 13, 2015

Question: Our pulmonologist recently administered a histamine challenge test? She also performed vital capacity and plethysmography. How should I code this scenario? What should I code for the actual Histamine supply?  New York Subscriber Answer: For the Histamine challenge test, you should report 95070 (Inhalation bronchial challenge testing [not including necessary pulmonary function tests]; with histamine, methacholine, or similar compounds).   [...]
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