CPT Knowledgebase - Mar 18, 2020

In the Interim Guidelines for Collecting, Handling, and Testing Clinical Specimens from Persons Under Investigation (PUIs) for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) published on March 9, 2020, the CDC recommends collecting both nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs from the upper respiratory system for initial diagnostic testing. If a laboratory is requested to test multiple separate specimens for the same virus, on the same patient, on the same day, how should this be reported?

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