Olivia and the group are discussing how to best assign a code for a vaccine given to a medicare patient. the vaccine was trivalent flu vaccine, split virus, im 0.25 ml dosage. neil says he used g0008 to explain the services.

explain why g0008 is or is not the correct code for the vaccination administration.

explain why different codes could be assigned for a patient with private health insurance versus medicare.

how do you know when a code from the hcpcs manual is required rather than the cpt manual for administration of vaccines or other toxoids?