AMA CPT® Assistant - 2018 Issue 6 (June)

New MAAA Codes for Breast Oncology (June 2018)

June 2018 page 8 New MAAA Codes for Breast Oncology Two new Category I codes (81520, 81521) were added to the Pathology and Laboratory/Multianalyte Assays with Algorithmic Analyses (MAAA) subsection of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2018 code set. These codes describe molecular diagnostic testing of genes expressed in patients diagnosed with breast carcinomas to calculate a risk score for recurrence (81520) and an index related to the risk of distant metastasis (81521). Both codes were added to Appendix O, which includes a table of the Administrative and Category I MAAAs, as well as the proprietary test name...

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