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Drug Testing:

Demystify Toxicology Coding With 4 Steps

Published on Wed Nov 06, 2013

Stick with 80100-80104 for ordered screening. Your lab may have high-complexity methods for quantifying drugs of abuse or therapeutic drugs, but that doesn’t mean you can pull out the “big guns,” coding wise, for every test. In other words, you shouldn’t use codes for therapeutic drug assay (80150-80299) or chemistry (82000-84999) if what the doctor ordered is a drug screen. [...]
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