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.