AMA CPT® Assistant - 2002 Issue 2 (February)
Pathology and Laboratory (February 2002)
February 2002 page 10 Coding Consultation Pathology and Laboratory, 87620 (Q&A) Question Should code 87620, Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (DNA or RNA); papillomavirus, human, direct probe technique, be reported when a human papillomavirus assay is performed by nucleic acid direct probe technique using an analyte specific reagent (ASR), or is this code only intended to identify this assay when an FDA-approved assay kit is used? AMA Comment From a coding perspective, use of an ASR rather than a FDA-approved assay kit in the human papillomavirus assay by direct probe technique does not effect CPT code selection...
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