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See How to Count Time for Pathology Consultation

Published on Mon Apr 11, 2022

Question: I’m trying to use the new clinical pathology consultation codes. Could you explain what is included in “time” if we want to code the pathologists’ work based on time? Texas Subscriber Answer: The codes you’re referring to are 80503-+80506 (Pathology clinical consultation …), which replace deleted codes 80500 and 80502 (Clinical pathology consultation …) in CPT® 2022. Codes 80503-80505 [...]
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