Michael Icardi wrote: Can anyone give some clarification as to how you count up your 88184 and 88185 codes to determine the total number of antibodies for your professional billing code? I am being told that 88184 does not count toward the total number of antibodies for your professional fee. Is this true? That would mean that the smallest panel you could ever charge a professional fee for is 3 antibodies. Any comments are appreciated. My understanding is that you may charge 88184 as your 1st antibody and then 88185 for the rest. So you can actually charge for a panel of two antibodies or more. However, those CPT codes are for billing the technical component. You have 3 choices for professional billing: CPT 88187 Interpretation of 2 - 8 markers CPT 88188 " 9 - 15 " CPT 88189 " 16 or more markers. This website has lots of good information: http://www.cms.hhs.gov Hope this helps! Regards - Leslie Ryan Immunology/Flow Cytometry Fletcher Allen Health Care Burlington VT 05401 Confidentiality Notice: This message, and any attachments, may contain information that is confidential, privileged, and/or protected from disclosure under state and federal laws that deal with the privacy and security of medical information. If you received this message in error or through inappropriate means, please reply to this message to notify the Sender that the message was received by you in error, and then permanently delete this message from all storage media, without forwarding or retaining a copy.Received on Thu Jul 7 15:58:00 2005
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