Histologists enter all TC IHC billing codes manually as performed before they
leave the lab.
Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:52:25 -0400
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question
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> Your Lis should not have done that.
> If you are using Copath/Cerner, I think they have automated it now according
> to their most recent newsletter. Currently, I have to manually change the
> 88342's to 1's It's somewhat of a pain. But, your Lis should have consulted
> someone before deleting all codes. Your pathologists should have been on top
> of it as well imho. Unfortunately, someone has to change. It may be too late
> to bill too for some.
> Garrey
>
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> > On Apr 30, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Mike Pence <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >>
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