AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2019 Issue 4; For Your Information

New CPT proprietary lab analysis (PLA) codes

Effective October 1 2019, there was 1 PLA code deleted and 34 PLA codes added Deleted PLA code: CPT Code Long Descriptor Effective Date 0104U Hereditary pan cancer (e.g., hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, hereditary endometrial cancer, hereditary colorectal cancer), genomic sequence analysis panel utilizing a combination of NGS, Sanger, MLPA, and array CGH, with MRNA analytics to resolve variants of unknown significance when indicated (32 genes [sequencing and deletion/duplication], EPCAM and GREM1 [deletion/duplication only]) October 1, 2019   New PLA codes: CPT Code Long Descriptor Effective Date 0105U Nephrology (chronic kidney disease), multiplex electrochemiluminescent immunoassay (ECLIA) of...

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