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Billing/Documentation Guidelines for Urine drug Tests For 2015, the American Medical Association (AMA) created 63 new codes describing a series of tests for the presence of various drugs. The codes include both presumptive tests and definitive tests for qualitative drug screens and quantitative drug level determination. In its preliminary decision, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reiterated its long-standing concerns about the potential for fraudulent and abusive billing of these drugs tests, and decided to delay decision-making on pricing for the new codes. CMS is concerned that the structure of the new drug testing codes may not prevent abusive billing .
Billing/Documentation Guidelines for Urine Drug Tests . For 2015, the American Medical Association (AMA) created 63 new codes describing a series of tests for the
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