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CPT® 2019:

Broaden HCV Patient Testing With 81596

Published on Mon Feb 11, 2019

Grasp guidelines for new liver-disease MAAA code. Your lab’s hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing involves many different procedures and codes for diagnosis or treatment monitoring, but CPT® 2019 adds one more code to the mix that you need to know. There’s help: Read on for guidance on the Multianalyte Assays with Algorithmic Analysis (MAAA) test described by new CPT® 2019 code 81596 (Infectious [...]
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