tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 37

Drug Coding: CPT® 2016 Pares Down Chromatography Choices

Changes compliment 2015 drug overhaul.  By now, you should have adjusted to last years’ massive CPT® drug coding facelift, but today it’s time to prepare for some related coding changes you can expect in 2016. Simplify Non-Drug Chromatography You currently have 12 codes for reporting chromatography and/or mass spectrometry (MS) procedures to identify analytes that CPT® does not specifically list in another code. Now CPT® 2016 has plans to delete 10 of those codes (82486-82492, 82541, 82543, 82544, and 83788). Beginning January 1, you’ll have just two codes left to choose from for reporting these procedures...

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