AMA CPT® Assistant - 2020 Issue 2 (February)

Cytogenomic Microarray Analysis for Neoplasia (February 2020)

February 2020 page 10 Cytogenomic Microarray Analysis for Neoplasia For the 2020 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, a new Tier 1 molecular pathology procedure code (81277) is available to report genome-wide (cytogenomic) microarray analysis for neoplasia. Prior to 2020, cytogenomic microarray analysis was included as part of Tier 2 code 81406; however, the test has sufficiently increased in utilization to support conversion to Tier 1 status. This article provides an overview of these changes. Tier 1 Molecular Pathology Procedures  81277Cytogenomic neoplasia (genome-wide) microarray analysis, interrogation of genomic regions for copy number and loss-of-heterozygosity variants for chromosomal abnormalities...

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