AMA CPT® Assistant - 2018 Issue 7 (July)
Pathology and Laboratory: Drug Assay (Q&A) (July 2018)
July 2018 page 15d Pathology and Laboratory: Drug Assay Question: If a 12-panel urine drug–test strip testing for drugs of abuse is cut in half, can code 80305 be reported with two units? Answer: No, the units of service for all the presumptive drug testing codes is "any number of drug classes, any number of devices or procedures." Therefore, one unit of code 80305, Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes, any number of devices or procedures; capable of being read by direct optical observation only (eg, utilizing immunoassay [eg, dipsticks, cups, cards, or cartridges]), includes sample...
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