AMA CPT® Assistant - 2011 Issue 10 (October)

Glucose and Ketone Home Monitoring (October 2011)

October 2011 page 8 Glucose and Ketone Home Monitoring The Summer 1994 and January 1999 editions of CPT Assistant discussed the reporting of codes 82962 and 82948 for glucose determination using either a home glucose monitoring device or reagent strip method. Currently, certain new home glucose monitoring devices continue to perform glucose determination as described by code 82962 but also allow for separate, additional testing of serum ketones using test strips (different from the glucose strips). The following "then and now" updates reporting instructions when both glucose and ketone testing is performed using this technology. THEN Summer 1994 82962Glucose...

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