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Published on Wed Jun 14, 2017

Question: A 16-year-old female patient recently came into our office for a routine flu immunization, which was administered by one of our nurses. Should we code this as 90460, or is 90471 a more accurate code to use for this service? Ohio Subscriber Answer: There are two main differences between 90460 (Immunization administration through 18 years of age via any route of [...]
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