tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 5

Allergy Alert: Tackle Your Allergy Test Coding With 95004

Starting point: Note the number of allergens tested. The green grass, blossoming trees, and bright sunshine may give picturesque views but unfortunately the pollens in the air during the spring and summer months cause a plethora of allergies. You could have many physicians in your facility, particularly otolaryngologists, performing “scratch tests,” “prick tests,” or “puncture tests” for allergy evaluation. Understand Code 95004  For all the documentation reporting these tests, your provider is referring to 95004 (Percutaneous tests [scratch, puncture, prick] with allergenic extracts, immediate type reaction, including test interpretation and report, specify number of...

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