Does R06.2 require prior authorization?

No, R06.2 does not require prior authorization (high confidence). Code is covered without prior authorization.

`R06.2` — Wheezing

ICD-10-CM

No Prior Auth Required

Code is covered without prior authorization (high confidence)

For services requiring a referring/ordering physician, the name and NPI of the referring/ordering physician must be reported on the claim.
Diagnostic test claims must include the test result if known; if result is not available, report the symptoms that prompted the test.
The patient medical record must include the ordering provider's assessment related to the patient's complaint, relevant medical history, and results of pertinent tests/procedures.
Office visit records and operative reports must be signed and dated; all services ordered or rendered to Medicare beneficiaries must be signed.

Follow-up or limited transthoracic echocardiography performed to evaluate a single specified cardiac problem or region must be billed with CPT 93308.
Limited Doppler/follow-up echocardiographic studies (for targeted velocity or gradient assessment) should be billed with CPT 93321 (e.g., tricuspid regurgitant velocity to estimate pulmonary artery systolic pressure or sequential transmitral velocity in mitral stenosis).
Therapeutic procedures whose principal aim is to treat a respiratory impairment must be billed using HCPCS codes G0237, G0238, or G0239.
Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is covered when the patient's medical record documents medical necessity consistent with the LCD indications for TTE.
Contrast (contrast-enhanced) echocardiography is covered when conventional echocardiographic studies were inconclusive and contrast enhancement is needed to complete diagnostic evaluation.
Repeat echocardiographic studies are covered to monitor changes in cardiac structure or function when there is a change in clinical status or when disease progression is suspected.

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