AMA CPT® Assistant - 2006 Issue 11 (November)

Pathology and Laboratory: Drug Testing (November 2006)

November 2006 page 22b Pathology and Laboratory: Drug Testing, 80101 (Q&A) Question If a patient is tested for opiates and barbiturates, how many times is code 80101, Drug screen, qualitative; single drug class method (eg, immunoassay, enzyme assay), each drug class, reported? For code 80101, each single drug class method tested and reported is to be counted as one drug class. If a sample is analyzed by five separate class-specific immunoassays and reported separately, code 80101 should be reported five times. Similarly, if a sample is run on a rapid assay kit composed of five classspecific immunoassays in...

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