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90658: Ready To Bow Out in Favor of New Flu Vaccine HCPCS Codes

Published on Sat Nov 20, 2010

You have until December 31 to submit your 90658 claims. Beginning Jan. 1, you can forget about the influenza vaccine code 90658 for your Medicare billing purposes. The code, which establishes separate billing codes for each brand-name influenza vaccine product, will give way to five specific HCPCS codes to meet your flu vaccine coding needs. Fact: The new HCPCS codes cover Medicare payment effective for dates of service on or after October 1, 2010, which means that for dates of service between October 1 and December 31, 90658 and the Q codes will be valid for billing. Medicare defines the HCPCS codes as: However, "effective for claims with dates of service on or after January 1, 2011, 90658 will no longer be payable for Medicare," according to a news release published by CMS in November. In other words, Medicare will not recognize these HCPCS codes until January 1, when 90658 [...]
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