Medicare issues new drug screen codes, sticks with 2014 payments
Effective Dec 15, 2014
Published Dec 15, 2014
Last Reviewed Dec 11, 2014
Don’t throw out your 2014 guidance for coding quantitative drug tests. Providers who perform tests such as drug confirmation and quantitative drug screens will have to use two code sets next year, and it won’t be easy to cross-walk between the two. In addition to a new set of CPT codes for use by a number of private payers, you’ll need to use HCPCS codes that are modeled on the 2014 CPT codes to report your services to Medicare.
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