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Distinguish Creatin Kinase Tests

Published on Tue Feb 09, 2021

Question: A cardiologist client requested total CK and CK isoenzymes upon the patient’s hospital admission, and again from a separate blood draw 12 hours later. How should we code this? New York Subscriber Answer: You need two codes to report total creatine kinase (CK) and CK isoenzymes. The codes are 82550 (Creatine kinase (CK), (CPK); total) and 82552 (... isoenzymes). [...]
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