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Use This Easy Way to Check Your Patient's 96110 Eligibility

Published on Sun Aug 22, 2004

Clip and post your guide to separately identifiable developmental screenings If you aren't sure which of the nearly 20 developmental screening tests qualify for CPT 96110 , you aren't alone. Keep track of the tests that warrant 96110 claims with this handy list.

Make sure to submit 96110 (Developmental testing; limited [e.g., Developmental Screening Test II, Early Language Milestone Screen], with interpretation and report) when your pediatrician administers the following tests:

 Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ)
 Battelle Developmental Screener
 Bayley Infant Neurodevelopmental Screener
 Brigance Early Preschool
 Chicago Early Developmental Screening Inventory
 Denver DST/Denver II
 Developmental Profile II
 Dial-R Developmental Assessment
 Early Language Milestone Scales Screen
 Early Screening Inventories
 Early Screening Profiles
 Minneapolis Preschool Screening Instrument
 Parent's Evaluation of Development (PEDS)
 Project Memphis DST
 Revised Developmental Screening Inventory
 Revised Parent Developmental Questionnaire
 Temperament and Atypical Behavior Scale Screener. - Information compiled from Illinois Department of Public Aid Healthy Kids Crosswalk.  
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