A once-obscure CPT code, 87798, PCR for "other organism," exploded in usage to become the highest-paid molecular code in 2014. During 2016, OIG reports have appeared and Medicare MACs rapidly began to slash payments for 87798. See a representative Linked In article, here.
As an experiment in AI writing - I briefly asked Chat GPT 5.6 to research 87798 at Linked In at elsewhere, get 20-30 references, and then write a white paper. That is, my instructions were minimal, and the project was AI-based research and writing.
Here is the 16-page PDF white paper:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qGAjKawZyn3n7OCL96IoNVgdyfUDKHOz/view?usp=sharing
