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| Short Descr | CHORNC GONADOTROPIN HCG IA | Medium Descr | CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN HCG IA DIR OPT OBS BLD | Long Descr | Gonadotropin, chorionic (hCG), immunoassay with direct optical observation, blood | CLIA Waived (QW) | No | APC Status Indicator | Conditionally packaged laboratory tests | Berenson-Eggers TOS (BETOS) | none | MUE | Not applicable/unspecified. |
| 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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| 2025-01-01 | Deleted | First appearance of deletion in codebook. |
| 2024-10-01 | Deleted | Code deleted |
| 2021-01-01 | Added | First appearance of addition in code book. |
| 2020-04-01 | Added | Code added. |
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