RE: Cytology cytopspins and CPT codes

From:"MacDonald, Jennifer" <jmacdonald@sach.org>

We are billing an 88108 for cytospins.

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> From: 	Paula Wilder[SMTP:histo20@hotmail.com]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, November 07, 2000 8:44 PM
> To: 	histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: 	Cytology cytopspins and CPT codes
> 
> Hello Histonet!
> 
> Yesterday, a neighboring hospital laboratory supervisor contacted me and 
> asked if our lab was billing CPT code 88104 or 88108 for cytology
> cytospins. 
>   After reading the code descriptions, it seems that cytospins should
> carry 
> the 88108 code (concentration technique).  Our hospital bills 88104.  I
> was 
> just wondering what everyone else was doing.  Thank you for your help!
> 
> Paula Wilder
> St. Joseph Medical Center
> Towson, MD.
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