CLIA Certificate and In-vivo Testing
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Hello fellow POC Colleagues, I have a question and i know someone knows the answers. One of my clinics will be doing in-vivo patient allergy testing on the patient's back, injecting them with known allergens. What I would like to know, is a CLIA license required for this kind of testing?
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Unless you collect a sample to be tested by lab, skin testing is not covered under CLIA.
No sample collected , no CLIA required.
No different than PPD testing for TB. Allergy skin testing is a "clinical" procedure. The appropriate CPT/HCPS codes for billing purposes are in the 95000 series of charge codes which further support this evaluation is not a test/procedure requiring a CLIA Certificate of any kind.
In-Vivo testing would includes, but is not limited to , skin prick, patch, scratch or intra-dermal injection.