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CPT® 2013:

Maneuver CPT® and CMS Instructions' Split Decision for MAAA Coding

Published on Fri Jan 11, 2013

To use or not to use the new codes: that is the question. As with last year’s new molecular pathology codes, you probably won’t be able to use the eight new CPT® 2013 codes for multi-analyte assays with algorithmic analyses (MAAAs). That’s because CMS states, "we will not recognize these nine MAAA codes for CY 2013," and places the codes [...]
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