AMA CPT® Assistant - 2012 Issue 6 (June)

Pathology and Laboratory: Tier 1 Molecular Pathology Procedures (Q&A) (June 2012)

June 2012 page 16 Pathology and Laboratory: Tier 1 Molecular Pathology Procedures Question: A celiac genetic test is performed using high resolution, which exams 35 allele families of the locus DQA1 and 37 allele families of the DQB1 locus. Would it be appropriate to report CPT code 81382? Answer: Yes. Code 81382 is appropriate, and it should be reported once for each locus tested. In this case, 2 units of code 81382 should be reported: once for the DQA1 locus and once for the DQB1 locus. CPT 2012 indicates the following descriptor for code 81382: 81382 HLA Class II...

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