AMA CPT® Assistant - 2012 Issue 5 (May)

Molecular Pathology (May 2012)

May 2012 pages 3-10 Molecular Pathology The 2012 edition of the CPT code set contains 102 new molecular pathology codes. These new codes, along with others that will be forthcoming in 2013, represent one of the largest expansions to this subsection. Because the field of molecular pathology (or molecular diagnostics) is rapidly evolving - partially due to significant efforts to understand the molecular basis of disease, including the Human Genome Project - medicine's knowledge about the very basic elements of human affliction is being elucidated. Consequently, the number of new molecular pathology procedures and new diagnostic approaches, mainly in...

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