AMA CPT® Assistant - 2020 Issue 5 (May)
Infectious Disease Testing for Bacterial or Viral Respiratory Tract Infection
May 2020 Special Edition Infectious Disease Testing for Bacterial or Viral Respiratory Tract Infection The American Medical Association (AMA) Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) Editorial Panel continues to address the rapidly evolving laboratory testing for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The Executive Committee of the CPT Editorial Panel has established a new proprietary laboratory analysis (PLA) code to describe a nucleic acid respiratory pathogen panel that includes SARS-CoV-2 as one of the specified targets of the panel. PLA codes describe proprietary clinical laboratory analysis tests that can be provided either by a sole-source laboratory or licensed or...
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