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CPT® 80326, Under Definitive Drug Testing Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 80326 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Definitive Drug Testing Procedures.

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The lab analyst measures the amount of or detects the presence of five or more amphetamines, a central nervous system stimulant, in a patient specimen.

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[b]Drug codes[/b] I am a medical coding student, and don't have a definite answer, but here is my understanding: In 2016 CPT Professional we have Definitive Drug Testing on page 494 with a note that... [ Read More ]
Drug Screen Help
A laboratory utilizing LCMS to produce quantitative drug test result that is considered a definitive result would report from the definitive codes that were released for 2015 by the AMA. Medicare rele... [ Read More ]
Drug Screen Help
".......Drug classes may contain one or more codes based on the number of analytes." AMA CPT Changes 2015 The Definitive Drug Classes Listing provides the drug classes, their associated CPT codes, a... [ Read More ]
HELP with Urine Drug Screening!!!!!!!!
You would want to also review the up and coming drug testing codes for 2015. I have copy and pasted these below. Purchasing AMA CPT Changes 2015 could assist with this. For example, in contrast to rep... [ Read More ]
New Drug Testing Codes 2015
Presumptive Drug Class Procedures 80300 Drug screen, any number of drug classes from Drug Class List A; any number of non-TLC devices or procedures, (eg, immunoassay) capable of being read by direct... [ Read More ]
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