CPT^® 80348, Under Definitive Drug Testing Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 80348 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 measures the amount of or detects the presence of buprenorphine in a patient specimen. Buprenorphine is a drug used to treat opioid addiction, to control acute pain in individuals who cannot tolerate opioids even in lower dosages, and to control moderate chronic pain.

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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 ]

Reimbursement for CPT 80348

As you all know, the CPT code 80348 (Buprenorphine) is new as of 2015. My office is addiction medicine, and we bill for this quite frequently. I'm wondering if anyone has had any issues with reimburse... [ 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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