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CPT® 87500, Under Infectious Agent Antigen Detection

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 87500 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Infectious Agent Antigen Detection.

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The lab analyst performs a test for vancomycin resistance in an infectious organism’s nucleic acid using amplified probe technique. VRE, vancomycin resistant enterococcus, is the most common organism showing this property. Van A and van B are groups of genes in the organism that allow it to be vancomycin resistant.

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Comprehensive UTI panel
Can anyone compare a comprehensive UTI panel's code set with ours? I'm trying to paste a copy of the panel, will try in the comments. We've got 87481 x5 , 87500 , 87640 , 87641 , 87653 , and 87798 x... [ Read More ]
Microbiology coding
We are having denials for CPT 87150, 87798, 87500, 87640, 87653, 87641, and 87651. The subsequent lines are being denied as bundled. Should we use modifier 59 or 91. Each line is for a different organ... [ Read More ]
Polymerase Chain Reaction for UTI billing
My urology office has been billing PCRs for almost a year with the following codes: 87640,59 1 unit; 87641,59 1 unit, 87798,59 16 units (13 units for Medicare and some other payers) 87500, 1 unit and ... [ Read More ]
Polymerase Chain Reaction for UTI billing
My office is wanting to bill for polymerase chain reaction for UTI's. We upgraded our CLIA to a high complexity lab in order to do this. However, the I am not sure the codes we were provided are all e... [ Read More ]
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Getting a lot denials for codes 87500, 87505, 87798. not sure why they are being denied does any body have advice on how to code these in order to get them payed? We are billing PCR exams with diagnos... [ Read More ]
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