A quarterly update for the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS), issued May 4, includes nine new CPT® codes for proprietary laboratory analyses (PLAs). Medical coding and billing staff that process claims for lab testing should be aware of these codes and pricing. 9 New PLA Codes The following PLA (type of service 5) codes are […]
Labs soon will have to work harder to merit the maximum allowed Medicare payment for high-throughput tests used to detect SARS-CoV-2. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been paying labs $100 per test — up from $51 — since a public health emergency (PHE) for COVID-19 was declared on March 18, 2020. […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created two new HCPCS Level II codes for lab tests that use high-throughput technologies to detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The rate for these codes is $100, roughly twice the rate of similar tests that don’t use high-throughput technologies. Consider New Codes in Place of […]