We do our billing manually through CoPath as well. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Mike Pence [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:44 PM To: 'WILLIAM DESALVO'; Cartun, Richard Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Histonet] IHC billing question
We do all of our IHC billing manually. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of WILLIAM DESALVO Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 4:43 PM To: Cartun, Richard Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question We have to manually review the IHC billing also and continue to audit. It took billing and IT three months to create the logic to automate billing for a specimen and account for combination of there being the possibility of 88341, 88342 & 88344 and the proper combinations. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Cartun, Richard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Effective January 1, 2015, our LIS team removed all of the CPT 88342 codes > for IHC from our CoPath stain dictionary since you couldn't tell whether a > Cytokeratin-7 was being performed as an "88341" or as an "88342". Now, as > you might have expected, none of the "inpatient" IHC testing has been > accounted for (the outpatient IHC has been billed manually from the pathology > report), and they want someone to go back and enter all the CPT codes into > the system (hopefully, not me!). Has anyone else encountered this problem? > Thanks (I think). > > Richard > > Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD > Director, Histology & Immunopathology > Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs Assistant Director, Anatomic > Pathology Hartford Hospital > 80 Seymour Street > Hartford, CT 06102 > (860) 972-1596 > (860) 545-2204 Fax > > > This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the > intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged > information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent > responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message, including any attachments. > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
