Some mouth swab tests are more sensitive than others
Therefore, we estimate that it will result in a total burden of 50,244 hours (18,609 respondents 2.70 incremental hours for a computer analyst's time above and beyond the physician, medical and health services manager, and computer system's analyst time required to submit quality data) and $5,353,065 (18,609 responses $287.66/response) to submit data for the Promoting Interoperability performance category in the CY 2025 performance period/2027 MIPS payment year
Therefore, for CPT codes 3X018-3X020 we are treating these codes as having no recommended direct PE values and are seeking comment on direct PE values for these codes
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When it was popular: Introduced to the US market in the early 2000s