AMA CPT® Assistant - 2021 Issue 3 (March)

Reporting MAAA for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (March 2021)

March 2021 page 6 Reporting MAAA for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis For the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2021 code set, new code 81554 was created and established in the Multianalyte Assays with Algorithmic Analyses (MAAA) subsection of the Pathology and Laboratory section. Code 81554 is intended for reporting an MAAA test for suspected idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). This article provides an overview of this new code. Multianalyte Assays with Algorithmic Analyses  81554Pulmonary disease (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis [IPF]), mRNA, gene expression analysis of 190 genes, utilizing transbronchial biopsies, diagnostic algorithm reported as categorical result (eg, positive or negative for high...

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