Billing Molecular CPT codes

Molecular Diagnostics Procedures

Molecular diagnostics procedures are coded by procedure rather than analyte using the following codes:

• 83890 MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS: molecular isolation or extraction
• 83892 MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS: enzyme digestion
• 83894 MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS: separation
• 83896 MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS: nucleic acid probe, each
• 83898 MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS: amplification, e.g., PCR, each
• 83902 MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS: reverse transcription
• 83912 MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS: interpretation and report

New antigen-specific codes are now used to describe infectious agent antigen detection and quantification using molecular diagnostic procedures.