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U0005

Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, cdc or non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies, completed within 2 calendar days from date of specimen collection (list separately in addition to either hcpcs code u0003 or u0004) as described by cms-2020-01-r2

TerminatedHCPCS Level II code.

Still listed by CMS but carries a termination date, so it is not valid for a current date of service.

Terminated with effect from 2023-05-11. First published 2023. CMS still lists this code in the current quarterly file - it carries a termination date rather than being removed.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2023 to now.

  1. April 2023 Terminated by CMS