AMA CPT® Assistant - 2003 Issue 6 (June)

Anatomic Pathology (June 2003)

June 2003 page 11-end Coding Consultation:Questions and Answers Anatomic Pathology, 87802-87804 (Q&A) Question Which lab code should I report for a rapid test to detect antigen(s) for influenza by immunoassay method? AMA Comment The appropriate code to report is code 87804, Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay with direct optical observation; Influenza. Three new microbiology codes, 87802-87804, were added to CPT in 2002 to describe visually-read immunoassays for specific infectious disease antigen(s) using the direct optical observation methodology. For code 87804, a respiratory sample (eg, throat swab, nasopharyngeal swab, nasal aspirate, sputum) is obtained to perform the rapid...

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