Need for prophylactic vaccination and inoculation against common cold (V04.7)
ICD-9 code V04.7 for Need for prophylactic vaccination and inoculation against common cold is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range -PERSONS WITH POTENTIAL HEALTHHAZARDS RELATED TO COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (V01-V06).
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[QUOTE="SLKappa, post: 362799, member: 210948"] the admin code is 90471 for everything except Medicare. The dx in ICD-10 is Z23 and if an old claim use ICD-9 V04.81.[/QUOTE]
Id still check with the ... [ Read More ]
[b]90658[/b]
90658 is the multidose vial - you should be using 90656 for single dose flu vaccine and the admin code is 90471 for everything except Medicare. The dx in ICD-10 is Z23 and if an old cla... [ Read More ]
This code keeps denying and all I get told is it's missing information. Does anyone know what's wrong with this code?
I'm billing:
V04.81
90658 and 90471 attached to both.
Thanks... [ Read More ]
Ignore where it says procedure code. They are just trying to let you know you no longer have to use a DX code based on each vaccine type.
Z23 is all you need to report, Well unless of course you did ... [ Read More ]
[b]Flu vaccine[/b]
Medicare will only reimburse the flu vaccine with cpt codes:
G0008 V04.81 and Q2036 V04.81
be sure to include the ndc code and number of units and modifier 25 if it is given wit... [ Read More ]
Hi. We billed cpt 90651 for a Gardasil 9 vaccine and linked it with V04.89. Insurance denied the vaccine saying that V04.89 does not correspond with this cpt. We have always used this dx code and it i... [ Read More ]
My understanding is that we use Z23 as a 2ry diagnosis but what do we use as the 1ry for the above? Before we would use V06.1, V04.89. V05.3.
The books state we must use a "procedure" code. I usually ... [ Read More ]
I believe it's whatever your physician puts in the chart as to why he/she is billing the procedure
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