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Look to CLFS, MACs for MAAA Pricing

Published on Tue Nov 08, 2016

Question: We read in a past issue of Pathology/Lab Coding Alert [Vol. 14, No. 3] that we should bill MAAA codes to Medicare using the underlying component tests. Is this still the case? Ohio Subscriber Answer: No, that is no longer the case for many CPT® codes that describe multi-analyte assays with algorithmic analyses (MAAAs). Although Medicare initially declined to price any [...]
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