AMA CPT® Assistant - 2006 Issue 7 (July)
Evaluation and Management: Office or Other Outpatient Services (July 2006)
July 2006 page 19 Evaluation and Management: Office or Other Outpatient Services, 99211 (Q&A) Question If a patient presents for interpretation of the results of a PPD (purified protein derivative of tuberculin) test, what would be the appropriate code to report for this service? AMA Comment This service is considered part of the medical decision making component of a level of an evaluation and management (E/M) service. Therefore, as this would be included in the E/M service, no additional code would be reported for the reading of a PPD test. Furthermore, if reading the tuberculin test is the...
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