News in brief COVID-19 testing codes CMS has adopted two new HCPCS codes that should be used for COVID-19 testing. March 17, 2020Tuesday AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Topics COVID-19 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has adopted two new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes that should be used for COVID-19 testing. U0001 – 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel should be used when specimens are sent to the CDC and CDC-approved local/state health department laboratories. U0002 – 2019-nCoV Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2/2019-nCoV (COVID-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-CDC should be used when specimens are sent to commercial laboratories, e.g. Quest or LabCorp, and not to the CDC or CDC-approved local/state health department laboratories. For more information and future updates, visit the CMS website and its recently issued FAQ. To view a more comprehensive list of COVID-19 codes, visit the Aetna website. More in Newsbriefs DO to lead Mississippi physician workforce office, DO student co-authors educational children’s book Richard Calderone, DO, MPH, is the new director of the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce, and Brooke Birks, OMS IV, published a children’s book. Free holistic residency application review platform will soon be available for residency programs that use ERAS Cortex, an AI-enabled platform, is designed to provide technology-assisted holistic review by streamlining application screening and review. Previous articleCOVID-19: DO spearheads project to provide docs with the latest updates Next articleCOVID-19 updates: The U.S. socially isolates as pandemic spreads
DO to lead Mississippi physician workforce office, DO student co-authors educational children’s book Richard Calderone, DO, MPH, is the new director of the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce, and Brooke Birks, OMS IV, published a children’s book.
Free holistic residency application review platform will soon be available for residency programs that use ERAS Cortex, an AI-enabled platform, is designed to provide technology-assisted holistic review by streamlining application screening and review.