AMA CPT® Assistant - 2004 Issue 10 (October)

Pathology and Laboratory (October 2004)

October 2004 page 14b Coding Consultation:Questions and Answers Pathology and Laboratory, 80299 (Q&A) Question What is the appropriate code(s) to report for quantitative caffeine drug testing performed by chromatography as well as quantitative caffeine performed by immunoassay? AMA Comment CPT does not have a specific CPT drug testing code that actually describes the caffeine analyte. Therefore, because the caffeine is considered an unspecified analyte, code 80299, Quantitation of drug, not elsewhere specified, would be the most appropriate code to separately report for each service (ie, the quantitative procedure performed by chromatography as well as the quantitative procedure performed...

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