CPT^® 90656, Under Vaccines, Toxoids

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 90656 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Vaccines, Toxoids.

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The provider injects into a patient’s muscle an altered form of a preservative–free, influenza split virus, in a 0.5 mL dosage to provide immunity to three forms of influenza, a severe and infectious respiratory disease.

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Flu vaccines ages 20-29 and medicaid

[QUOTE="sheilacpc, post: 485658, member: 33166"] [URL='https://medicaid.ncdhhs.gov/blog/2020/09/01/influenza-vaccine-and-reimbursement-guidelines-2020-2021-medicaid-and-nc-health']NC Medicaid: Influen... [ Read More ]

vaccine only

Vaccine only - adult patient Do z23 CPT 90471 CPT 90656 (or whatever flu vaccine you are using, they are all specific) No visit if all the provider did was administer a vaccine. Children have a diff... [ Read More ]

Fluvirin prefilled syringe vaccine

Per the following presentation on slide 4 (bottom of PDF page 2) [url]http://www.izsummitpartners.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/20e-3_Lewin_Novartis.pdf[/url] FLUVIRIN® (Influenza Virus Vaccine) �... [ Read More ]

Flu Vaccine

[b]Novartis Vaccines[/b] [QUOTE="aaia2011, post: 359763, member: 170331"]What NDC are you guys billing with? We are using 66521-0118-10 and it is being rejected as invalid NDC and we are billing with... [ Read More ]

Cpt code 90658

[b]90658[/b] 90658 is the multidose vial - you should be using 90656 for single dose flu vaccine and the admin code is 90471 for everything except Medicare. The dx in ICD-10 is Z23 and if an old cla... [ Read More ]

Flu Vaccine

[b]Flu Vaccine Rejections[/b] Hello everyone We are an allergy practice here in Texas and we are billing out our flu vaccine (Norvartis NDC on the carton is 6652111810). We have billed it out in all... [ Read More ]

Wound Care - the proper code

For sutures being removed from a chin laceration, and the wound care is cpt code 97602 the proper code? This code was denied, because the 879.8 doesn't support medical necessity for this code. I'm th... [ Read More ]

How to code a E&M code with a vaccine admin charge

[b]Injection coding[/b] 99391-25 use all dx codes listed 90471 administration- DX V059 enter corresponding vaccination code ie; 90656 with one specific dx code 90472 if additional injection is given... [ Read More ]

Wi medicaid denials

We had a husband and wife come in on the same day for preventive visits. Each had flu shots and labs done. WI Medicaid is denying the 90471 for both, the flu vaccine codes used were 90656 and 90658. A... [ Read More ]

Multiple services on the same day

With Novitas as my MAC, I would code: 99214-25 96372 93000-59 90656 G0008 J3420 Novitas has just been auto-adding -51 whenever they deem it appropriate, so I stopped doing it Note: I have never had... [ Read More ]

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