AMA CPT® Assistant - 2021 Issue 6 (June)

Genetic Analyses for Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Acute Myeloid Leukemia (June 2021)

June 2021 pages 9-10 Genetic Analyses for Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Acute Myeloid Leukemia New codes were added to the Molecular Pathology subsection of the Pathology and Laboratory section of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2021 code set, several of which were discussed in previous issues of CPT® Assistant. This article introduces four new additional Tier 1 codes (81347, 81348, 81357, 81360) that were added to report genetic analysis of genes linked to myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Tier 1 Molecular Pathology Procedures  81347SF3B1 (splicing factor [3b] subunit B1) (eg, myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myeloid leukemia) gene analysis...

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