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CPT® 2020:

Recognize PLA Drug Test Codes

Published on Thu Oct 10, 2019

You might need to pre-empt Category I. There’s a catch for all the drug-test coding advice you read about in the preceding article. “If your lab performs a proprietary laboratory analysis (PLA) test, you must use the appropriate PLA code instead of a Category I code,” explains William Dettwyler, MT AMT, president of Codus Medicus, a laboratory coding consulting firm [...]
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