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Current Procedural Terminology® 2010
Excerpt: Changes to CPT effective for reporting services provided after January 1, 2010, including more specific language differentiating consultation from transfer, reporting non-face-to-face prolonged services, integumentary system codes, pulmonary function tests, and new Category II codes for end-stage renal disease and HIV/AIDS
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11/2/2009
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Reporting H1N1 Influenza Immunization Services Provided to Patients Covered Under Commercial Insurance – Updated October 6, 2009
The H1N1 influenza virus vaccine (Swine flu) product will be furnished to providers by the federal government for all patients regardless of insurance. It is expected that the shipment of the vaccine product will also include the necessary supplies (eg, syringes, needles, sharps containers and alcohol swabs). The distribution of the vaccine will be determined by each state and may include physicians, pharmacies, public health departments, and schools.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has queried the large commercial payers to discern their policy regarding billing and coverage for the immunization administration of the H1N1 influenza vaccine product when it is
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Current Procedural Terminology® 2010
The 2010 changes to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) are effective for reporting services provided on or after January 1, 2010. Significant changes in-clude more specific language to differentiate a consultation from a transfer of care, new guidelines for reporting non-face-to-face prolonged physician services, substantial changes to the integumentary system codes and definitions in the surgery section of CPT, and new codes for pediatric pulmonary function tests. Other important changes include the introduction of new Category II (performance measures) codes for pediatric end-stage renal disease and HIV/AIDS.
Denials to Dollars: American Academy of Pediatrics Advocates for Increased Payment for Combination Vaccines
New CPT codes AAP has developed to more accurately reflect physician work administering combination vaccines
CPT 2010 Changes: Evaluation and Management Services
Concurrent Care vs. Transfer of Care, Non-face-to-face prolonged physician services, and Nursing Facility Care
CPT 2010 Changes: Medicine
Immune Globulins, Vaccines and Toxoids, Pulmonary Function Testing, and Highly Complex Drug and Biologic Administration
You Code It!
Reporting services performed by 2 hospitalists for an inpatient
Reporting Influenza: Use the New 2009 ICD-9-CM Codes
Two new codes to report A/H5N1 and H1N1 influenza
Q&A
Diagnosis code for plastic surgeon scar revision, vaccine counseling with parental refusual to immunize, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale for the mother, and adjusting medication over the telephone
AAP Pediatric Coding Newsletter™, Volume 5, Number 2 (November 2009), Quiz
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