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AMA CPT® Assistant - 2007 Issue 3 (March)
Medicine: Allergy and Clinical Immunology (March 2007)
March 2007 page 11-end
Coding Communication:Medicine: Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Question
Is it appropriate to report code 95012
for nitric oxide-expired gas determination
when performed by spectroscopy?
AMA Comment
No, code 95012 is intended
to describe nitric oxide-expired gas determination.
If spectroscopy is used, then Category III
code 0064T, Spectroscopy, expired gas analysis
(eg, nitric oxide/carbon dioxide test), should be
reported because this code is intended to
describe nitric oxide-expired gas determination
by spectroscopy.
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