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CPT Knowledgebase - Feb 3, 2012
A laboratory offers a test that includes multiple different analytes for which analyte-specific codes exist. The laboratory, however, provides a single result that is derived by aggregate analysis of the individual results. There is no current CPT code for the aggregate analysis. Should the laboratory report the individual codes that comprise the tests that went into the aggregate analysis?
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