AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2023 Issue 2; For Your Information

Updated Emergency Use Authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines and CPT vaccine codes

Effective March 14, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized an amended version of its Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent COVID-19 vaccine. This change now authorizes a single booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’ s bivalent vaccine for children 6 months through 4 years of age, who are at least 2 months past the completion of a three dose primary series with Pfizer-BioNTech’ s monovalent vaccine. In response, on March 17, 2023, the American Medical Association approved new CPT Category I code 0174A, Immunization administration by intramuscular injection of severe acute...

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