AMA CPT® Assistant - 1993 Issue 2 (February)

Allergy Testing (Summer 1993)

Summer 1993 page 16 Coding Commentary Allergy Testing In the Summer 1991 issue of the CPT Assistant, all of the codes used to describe allergy testing were explained. In CPT 1993, several of these codes were revised. This article will discuss those specific changes. Codes 95004 and 95024 All the allergy skin test codes in the past include groupings of numbers of tests (i.e., 1-30; 31-60). This resulted in physicians being unable to report exactly the number of texts performed. In an effort to have coding reflect the actual services rendered, the codes for the various groupings were...

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