AMA CPT® Assistant - 2018 Issue 1 (January)

Proprietary Laboratory Analyses Technical Corrections (January 2018)

January 2018 page 6 Proprietary Laboratory Analyses Technical Corrections Several important technical revisions and corrections in the Pathology and Laboratory/Proprietary Laboratory Analyses (PLA) subsection of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set took effect on January 1, 2018. These revisions and corrections, along with the latest published errata, are available free of charge on the American Medical Association (AMA) website at www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/errata-technical-corrections. PLA codes are used to report proprietary clinical laboratory analyses that may be offered by a single laboratory, or that may be licensed and/or marketed to multiple laboratories. Introductory guidelines to the PLA subsection...

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