2015 Drug Testing billing

The AMA and CMS have made significant changes to the drug testing HCPCS codes available for 2015. Codes for many of the drug screens and drug assays in the 80100 to 84127 range are being discontinued for 2015. Medicare has decided to delay adoption of the new CPT codes 80300 – 80377 and instead will utilize the G codes on an interim basis starting in January 2015, while they finalize appropriate pricing and editing for the new codes. It is anticipated that Medicare will adopt the new CPT codes in 2016. Medicaid Connecticut will also delay implementation of these codes until 2016.