Allergy injections/immunotherapy

Applies to:

All plans

Definition:

Allergen immunotherapy, also known as desensitization or hypo-sensitization, is a medical treatment for some types of allergies, involving exposing patients to small amounts of allergens to change/improve their immune system response to those allergens.

Medical policy:

Allergy Testing / Immunotherapy - 91037

Allergy injections/immunotherapy billing

Do not use therapeutic and diagnostic injection codes to report allergy injection services.

The quantity should always be one.