AMA CPT® Assistant - 2020 Issue 10 (October)

Coding Brief: Reporting M. Genitalium Infection (October 2020)

October 2020 page 11 Coding Brief: Reporting M. Genitalium Infection In the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2020 code set, a new laboratory test code to report the detection of Mycoplasma genitalium (M. genitalium) was added to the Microbiology subsection of the Pathology and Laboratory section. Code 87563 was established to specifically report testing for sexually transmitted infection by M. genitalium using amplified probe technique. Before 2020, the only code available to report M. genitalium by amplified probe technique was unlisted code 87798, Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (DNA or RNA), not otherwise specified; amplified probe technique, each...

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