AMA CPT® Assistant - 2023 Issue 10 (October)

Coding Brief: Mutation Identification and Variant Analysis for SARS-CoV-2 (87913) (October 2023)

October 2023 pages 10-12 Coding Brief: Mutation Identification and Variant Analysis for SARS-CoV-2 (87913) Since the start of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (coronavirus disease [COVID-19]) pandemic and public health emergency (PHE) in early 2020, the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) CPT Editorial Panel (the Panel) has worked expeditiously to address the coding gaps regarding laboratory testing—to identify the disease and presence of antibodies—as well as to develop new coding structures to describe various vaccine products and their administration. The results of this important work were published in multiple CPT® Assistant (CPTA) Special Editions from 2020 until...

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