Lab Fee G Codes Crosswalk to CPT

November 18, 2009

Question: Did you get any info at the CPT 2010 conference about the “Table of Drugs and the Appropriate Qualitative Screening, Confirmatory, and Quantitative Codes” on page 386 CPT? This is brand new, and I need to learn about it.

Answer: CMS created lab fee G codes to substitute for CPT codes due to concern about how the CPT codes were being used. “I thought the descriptions were the same,” said Kenneth Simon, MD, MBA, FACS, CMS for the hospital and ambulatory policy group senior medical officer in “Medicare Physician Payment Schedule 2010 Changes and Beyond” at the CPT and RBRVS 2010 Annual Symposium in Chicago on Nov. 11, 2009. “It was supposed to be a straight cross walk.”

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