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AMA CPT® Assistant - 2006 Issue 7 (July)
Evaluation and Management: Office or Other Outpatient Services (July 2006)
July 2006 page 19
Evaluation and Management: Office or Other Outpatient Services, 99211 (Q&A)
Question
If a patient presents for interpretation
of the results of a PPD (purified protein
derivative of tuberculin) test, what would be
the appropriate code to report for this service?
AMA Comment
This service is considered part
of the medical decision making component of a
level of an evaluation and management (E/M)
service. Therefore, as this would be included in
the E/M service, no additional code would be
reported for the reading of a PPD test. Furthermore,
if reading the tuberculin test is the...
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