Vaccine CPT updates 2013 by AMA

The American Medical Association has been releasing and updating CPT codes since 2006, and recently the CPT updates 2013 codes for vaccines has been published.
Some of the codes that have been accepted and will be included in the 2013 codes are:

• Code 90653
• Code 90739
• Code 90672

The codes that are accepted to be included in the 2014 codebook are:

• Code 90685
• Code 90686
• Code  90687
• Code 90688

There are codes with the description “trivalent”, meaning “conferring immunity to three different pathogenic strains or species”:

• Code 90655
• Code 90656
• Code 90657
• Code 90658
• Code 90660

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