BC Advantage - 2020 Issue 5

Special COVID Laboratory Specimen Coding Information

With all the new laboratory test codes that have been added due to the current public health emergency (PHE), there are a few additional guidelines CMS has released about collecting samples to perform the testing. Please keep in mind that these guidelines are by CMS and may or may not apply to other commercial payer policies.Specimen Collection CodingDuring this PHE, for their own safety or the safety of others, patients are confined to their homes to minimize the risk of exposure. Therefore, in order to obtain testing, new codes and methodologies have been put into place.To report...

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