Effective January 1, 2013, new codes have been established to report allergy testing for venoms, drugs and biological.  Previously, Code 95010 was used to report percutaneous testing (scratch, puncture, prick) sequential and incremental and Code 95015 was used to report Intracutaneous testing (intradermal).  It was found that in most cases, both codes were reported for a single patient since both percutaneous and intracutaneous testing was typically performed.  These codes have now been deleted and replaced by two new codes, 95017 and 95018.

Code 95017 is defined as allergy testing, any combination of percutaneous (scratch, puncture, prick) and intracutaneous (intradermal) sequential and incremental, with venoms, immediate test reaction, including test interpretation and report, specify number of tests.  Code 95018 has the identical definition but is specified for testing drugs and biologicals; i.e., allergy testing, any combination of percutaneous (scratch, puncture, prick) and intracutaneous (intradermal) sequential and incremental, with drugs or biologicals, immediate test reaction, including test interpretation and report, specify number of tests.  Thus, the distinction between these codes is no longer based on the technique used but rather whether venoms or drugs/biologicals are being tested.