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| Short Descr | NEURO CSF PRION PRTN QUAL | Medium Descr | NEURO CSF DETCJ PRION PRTN QUAKG CONF CONV QUAL | Long Descr | Neurology (prion disease), cerebrospinal fluid, detection of prion protein by quaking-induced conformational conversion, qualitative | CLIA Waived (QW) | No | APC Status Indicator | Conditionally packaged laboratory tests | Berenson-Eggers TOS (BETOS) | none | MUE | 1 |
| 90 | Reference (outside) laboratory: when laboratory procedures are performed by a party other than the treating or reporting physician or other qualified health care professional, the procedure may be identified by adding modifier 90 to the usual procedure number. | 26 | Professional component: certain procedures are a combination of a physician or other qualified health care professional component and a technical component. when the physician or other qualified health care professional component is reported separately, the service may be identified by adding modifier 26 to the usual procedure number. |
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| 2022-01-01 | Note | Grammar correction |
| 2019-01-01 | Added | First appearance in code book |
| 2018-04-01 | Added | Code added. |
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