RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update--requested link

2012-01-26 Thread Weems, Joyce
erset-healthcare.com] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:55 To: Weems, Joyce; Hannen, Valerie; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update--requested link Also, is the billing (or lack of) the same if you stain with a cocktail as opposed to a double stain? -Ori

RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update--requested link

2012-01-26 Thread Rathborne, Toni
To: Hannen, Valerie; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update--requested link This is how I understand it. You can bill for multiple different antibodies on the same specimen, but not for multiple blocks of the same ab on the same specimen. e.g

RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update--requested link

2012-01-26 Thread Weems, Joyce
tonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: FW: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update--requested link Sorry for my redundancy in sending this messageI could not seem to get my act together in sending it in properly. : ) Valerie -Original Message- From: Hannen, Valerie Sent: Wednesday, Janua

RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update--requested link

2012-01-26 Thread Lester Raff MD
@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: FW: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update--requested link Sorry for my redundancy in sending this messageI could not seem to get my act together in sending it in properly. : ) Valerie -Original Message- From: Hannen, Valerie Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:37

FW: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update--requested link

2012-01-26 Thread Hannen, Valerie
] RE: NCCI policy update--requested link -Original Message- From: Hannen, Valerie Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:05 PM To: 'Lester Raff MD' Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update--requested link Ok folks...sorry for revisting this issue...but I must. We are cont

RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

2011-12-31 Thread joelle weaver
Thanks so much for posting this, it will streamline getting this information greatly!Joelle Joelle Weaver MAOM, (HTL) ASCP http://www.linkedin.com/in/joelleweaver Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:10:05 -0600 From: lr...@uropartners.com To: joellewea

FW: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update--requested link

2011-12-31 Thread Lester Raff MD
-Original Message- From: Lester Raff MD Sent: Sat 12/31/2011 4:10 PM To: joelle weaver ; Rathborne Toni ; jel...@yumaregional.org ; histot...@imagesbyhopper.com Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu ; dorothy.l.w...@healthpartners.com Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

2011-12-31 Thread Lester Raff MD
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:21:28 To: ; ; Cc: ; Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update Do you have the link to this new guideline? The site can be difficult to navigate. -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun

Re: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

2011-12-31 Thread joelle weaver
Original Message- > From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Amber > McKenzie > Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 3:07 PM > To: Martha Ward-Pathology; Webb, Dorothy L; > 'histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu' &g

Re: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

2011-12-31 Thread joelle weaver
Yes this link would be great to share. Thanks Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Rathborne Toni Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:21:28 To: ; ; Cc: ; Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update Do you have the link to this new guideline? The site can be

Re: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update plus copper stain CPT change

2011-12-31 Thread Kim Donadio
uv Ya!   Kim D From: "Weems, Joyce" To: Kim Donadio ; Lester Raff MD ; Jesus Ellin ; "histot...@imagesbyhopper.com" Cc: "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" ; "Webb, Dorothy L" Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 1:03 PM S

RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update plus copper stain CPT change

2011-12-31 Thread Weems, Joyce
ubject: Re: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update The practice of billing for seperate blocks on one specimen such as A1, A2 and A3 I beleive has long been gone. At least in the organizations I have been with. What seems to be new is they are going after the new trend of using cocktail antibodies. I agree

RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

2011-12-31 Thread Rathborne, Toni
; histot...@imagesbyhopper.com Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu; Webb, Dorothy L Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update Below is the quote from the new NCCI guidelines that deal with this issue. I am amazed that CAP and ASCP, have not been 1) notifying members and 2) disputing this

Re: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

2011-12-31 Thread Kim Donadio
I said it.   Kim Donadio From: Lester Raff MD To: Jesus Ellin ; histot...@imagesbyhopper.com Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu; "Webb, Dorothy L" Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 10:56 AM Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update Below is the quote from the new NCCI guideline

RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

2011-12-31 Thread Lester Raff MD
ubject: Re: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update Don't you think we havea hand in this reporting out this CPT code so much,, I would expect this to be bundled here soon in a DRG for pathology services,, that's where it is headed. Sent from my iPad On Dec 30, 2011, at 2:22 PM, "his

Re: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

2011-12-30 Thread Jesus Ellin
Original Message- > From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Amber > McKenzie > Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 3:07 PM > To: Martha Ward-Pathology; Webb, Dorothy L; > 'histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu' > Subject:

RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

2011-12-30 Thread histotech
...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Amber McKenzie Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 3:07 PM To: Martha Ward-Pathology; Webb, Dorothy L; 'histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu' Subject: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update Where can I get the article to show

[Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

2011-12-30 Thread Amber McKenzie
; 'histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu' Subject: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update Oh yes, we are very aware and quite upset at the change! Martha Ward, MT (ASCP) QIHC Manager, Molecular Diagnostics Lab Dept. of Pathology Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Winston-Salem, NC 27157 33

[Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

2011-12-30 Thread Martha Ward-Pathology
Oh yes, we are very aware and quite upset at the change! Martha Ward, MT (ASCP) QIHC Manager, Molecular Diagnostics Lab Dept. of Pathology Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Winston-Salem, NC 27157 336-716-2104 -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.e