What are lab codes in medical billing?

What are lab codes in medical billing?

List of Top Laboratory Testing: CPT Codes 80000-89999

CPT DESCRIPTION Average Charge
85576 85576 PLATELET FUNCTION SCREEN $302.00
85002 85002 BLEEDING TIME $446.00
85379 85379 D DIMER (QUANT) $129.00
DNA TEST COLLECTION/PREP FEE $159.00

How are labs billed?

All labs are billed via a set of current procedural terminology – or CPT – codes. All the considerations named above require attention to what is a relatively complex billing cycle.

What is DX code Z01 812?

Encounter for preprocedural laboratory examination
812: Encounter for preprocedural laboratory examination.

What is R79 89?

Other specified abnormal findings of blood chemistry
89 for Other specified abnormal findings of blood chemistry is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range – Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified .

What is the CPT code for lab results?

CPT Code range (80047-89398) for pathology and laboratory contains CPT codes for organ or disease-oriented panels, drug testing, therapeutic drug assays, evocative/suppression testing, consultations (clinical pathology), urinalysis, chemistry, hematology and coagulation, immunology, transfusion medicine, microbiology, anatomic pathology (postmortem

What is CPT code for Lab panel?

CPT Coding for Laboratory Panels. A laboratory panel is a package of tests that often are ordered together. Each panel code (80047-80076) includes multiple tests. When all the tests included in the panel are ordered, report the panel code.

What is the CPT code for blood work?

The collection processing and storage services are reported using Revenue Code 0390 or 0391 with the appropriate blood product code, the number of units transfused and the HCPCS modifier BL. Whenever there is a charge for the blood, there must be a corresponding charge for processing.

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