CPT^® 80321, Under Definitive Drug Testing Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 80321 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 detects and measures the alcohol biomarker in a patient specimen. Alcohol biomarkers are physiological indicators of the alcohol exposure or ingestion. In this test, the analyst tests for one or two alcohol biomarker compounds.

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urine drug screen question

[QUOTE="metzger130, post: 369843, member: 78422"]I saw the new code for the drug screens and am not a fan of it at all. Our lab does drug screens not only for doctor offices but also for treatment ce... [ Read More ]

Laboratory Billing

I have a questions for any Laboratory CMS expert on Drug Testing. I am billing out a G0431 and a 80321. These are the only codes I am billing at this time. Will this code bundle all of the different d... [ 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 ]

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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