Medical News Today
Rapid Pathogen Screening Inc., (RPS) -- a leading developer of point-of-care diagnostic devices for ocular diseases -- announced that the American Medical Association will issue a new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code that will cover the RPS Adeno Detector(TM), effective January 1, 2008. CPT Code 87809 -- a code for "Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay with direct optical observation; Adenovirus" -- will cover the RPS Adeno Detector(TM).