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Learn New Respiratory Virus Code
Published on Thu Dec 17, 2020
Question: Our lab performs an antigen immunoassay test for SARS-CoV-2 plus influenza A and B. Should we report this as 87451? Texas Subscriber Answer: CPT® recently announced a new code that describes the service you indicated in your question: 87428 (Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay technique, (eg, enzyme immunoassay [EIA], enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay [ELISA], fluorescence immunoassay [FIA], immunochemiluminometric assay [IMCA]) qualitative [...]