AMA CPT® Assistant - 2015 Issue 7 (July)

Coding Brief: Intradermal Testing (95017, 95018) (July 2015)

July 2015 page 9 Coding Brief: Intradermal Testing (95017, 95018) Codes 95017 and 95018 were introduced in the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2013 code set to report allergy test with venoms (95017) and with drugs and biologicals (95018) using any combination of percutaneous (scratch, puncture, prick) and intracutaneous (intradermal) methods. For both codes, the intradermal tests are evaluated immediately to determine whether there is a reaction (immediate-type reaction). The former codes 95010 and 95015 (deleted in 2013) were differentiated primarily on the technique used. The establishment of codes 95017 and 95018 allows for more specific identification of the...

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