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CPT® 2017:

Welcome Drug-Screen Code Update -- Again

Published on Wed Sep 14, 2016

Get payers on the same song sheet. If you’re still frustrated because you have to bill drug screening to one payer using HCPCS Level II ‘G’ codes, but to another payer using a different group of CPT® codes, you can look for some relief in 2017. That’s because CPT® 2017 proposes three new codes that are virtually identical to the [...]
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