Hospitals commonly use the chargemaster to code lab procedures.
Remember, with APCs, lab procedures are paid by Medicare under a fee schedule. Let s look at code 80048 together. Note that each of the panels includes combinations of tests that can occur separately or together with one another. Qualitative detection tells the physician if a drug is present in the person s body. Quantitative detection tells the pathologist how much of the drug is present in the person s body.