AMA CPT® Assistant - 2017 Issue 3 (March)

Presumptive Drug Class Screening Changes (March 2017)

March 2017 page 6 Presumptive Drug Class Screening Changes Important updates and revisions were made to the Pathology and Laboratory section of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2017 code set. Because there is a significant amount of information to provide, this topic will be broken down into separate articles in 2017. In this first installment, we discuss the changes in the Presumptive Drug Class Screening (PDCS) code subsection. Future articles will discuss changes in the Multianalyte Assays with Algorithmic Analyses (MAAAs) subsection, changes to the molecular pathology sections of CPT, including changes in the Genomic Sequencing Procedures, and...

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