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90748 Hib-hepb vaccine im

What 90748 is

CMS fee schedule short descriptor: Hib-hepb vaccine im.

Full CPT long descriptions are licensed by the American Medical Association and are not published on this site; the short descriptor above is the one CMS prints in its own fee schedule file. See About CPT.

Medicare payment for 90748 (CY2026)

This code has no Physician Fee Schedule rate: Not valid for Medicare purposes. It may be paid under a different fee schedule (clinical laboratory, DMEPOS, anesthesia) or not paid at all - check the relevant CMS schedule.

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Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE)

Medicare caps 90748 at 0 units per date of service for practitioner claims (MAI 3 - date of service edit (clinical): units above the MUE may pay with documentation on appeal), rationale: CMS Policy. Units above the cap are denied unless the edit's adjudication rules allow an appeal with documentation.

Billed with 90748? These codes are bundled into it

90748 is a Column 1 code in 4 active NCCI PTP edits. When one of these Column 2 codes is reported on the same date of service, it is denied as bundled - unless the edit's modifier indicator is 1 and documentation supports a distinct service with an NCCI-associated modifier.

Column 2 codeShort descriptionModifier indicator
36591Draw blood off venous device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
36592Collect blood from picc0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
90739Hepb vacc 2/4 dose adult im0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
96523Irrig drug delivery device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair

90748 is bundled into these codes

90748 appears as a Column 2 code in 2 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 90748 is the code that denies.

Column 1 codeShort descriptionModifier indicator
90697Dtap-ipv-hib-hepb vaccine im0Check pair
90698Dtap-ipv/hib vaccine im0Check pair

Data: CMS CY2026 Physician Fee Schedule RVU file (October release, RVU26D) and Medicare NCCI PTP practitioner edits v32.3 (2026 Q4). Verify against the official files before billing or contracting decisions.