Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question
Hi Joyce, What about if you are using 88360 for Estrogen receptor and Progesterone receptor? An example would be an order for ER, PR, p63, AE1/3? Would it be 88360 x 2, 88342, 88341 or would be it 88360 x 2 and 88341 x 2? I'm not sure if the quantitative charge takes precedence over the 88342 being the first identifiable antibody or if they are stand alone? Thanks, Jessica Piche,HT (ASCP) Waterbury Hospital -Original Message- From: Weems, Joyce K. [mailto:joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 2:22 PM To: 'Michael Mihalik'; 'Horn, Hazel V'; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question It's per specimen - 88342 for the first ab on a specimen, 88341 for ea additional on same specimen. (Not multiple blocks on same specimen). Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: Michael Mihalik [mailto:m...@pathview.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 1:06 PM To: 'Horn, Hazel V'; Weems, Joyce K.; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: [Histonet] IHC billing question Am I misunderstanding, or should it be per specimen and not per case? Michael Mihalik PathView Systems | cell: 214.733.7688 | 800.798.3540 | fax: 952.241.7369 -Original Message- From: Horn, Hazel V [mailto:hor...@archildrens.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 8:50 AM To: 'Weems, Joyce K.'; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question We have 2 billing codes for IHC. One for the first IHC and another for all additional IHC's on the same case. Hazel Horn Supervisor of Histology/Autopsy/Transcription Anatomic Pathology Arkansas Children's Hospital 1 Children's Way | Slot 820| Little Rock, AR 72202 501.364.4240 direct | 501.364.1241 fax hor...@archildrens.org archildrens.org -Original Message- From: Weems, Joyce K. [mailto:joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 8:13 AM To: 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question I do it every day - change every first to 88342. Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Cartun, Richard Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:33 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] IHC billing question 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 at
Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question
It's per specimen - 88342 for the first ab on a specimen, 88341 for ea additional on same specimen. (Not multiple blocks on same specimen). Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: Michael Mihalik [mailto:m...@pathview.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 1:06 PM To: 'Horn, Hazel V'; Weems, Joyce K.; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: [Histonet] IHC billing question Am I misunderstanding, or should it be per specimen and not per case? Michael Mihalik PathView Systems | cell: 214.733.7688 | 800.798.3540 | fax: 952.241.7369 -Original Message- From: Horn, Hazel V [mailto:hor...@archildrens.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 8:50 AM To: 'Weems, Joyce K.'; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question We have 2 billing codes for IHC. One for the first IHC and another for all additional IHC's on the same case. Hazel Horn Supervisor of Histology/Autopsy/Transcription Anatomic Pathology Arkansas Children's Hospital 1 Children's Way | Slot 820| Little Rock, AR 72202 501.364.4240 direct | 501.364.1241 fax hor...@archildrens.org archildrens.org -Original Message- From: Weems, Joyce K. [mailto:joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 8:13 AM To: 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question I do it every day - change every first to 88342. Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Cartun, Richard Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:33 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] IHC billing question 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 Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the ori
Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question
Histologists enter all TC IHC billing codes manually as performed before they leave the lab. Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC > From: garr...@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:52:25 -0400 > To: mpe...@grhs.net > Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question > CC: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu; richard.car...@hhchealth.org > > 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 > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Apr 30, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Mike Pence wrote: > > > > We do all of our IHC billing manually. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > > [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of WILLIAM > > DESALVO > > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 4:43 PM > > To: Cartun, Richard > > Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > > 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 > >> 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 > >> Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > >> http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > > > > ___ > > Histonet mailing list > > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > > > > ___ > > Histonet mailing list > > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > > ___ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question
Am I misunderstanding, or should it be per specimen and not per case? Michael Mihalik PathView Systems | cell: 214.733.7688 | 800.798.3540 | fax: 952.241.7369 -Original Message- From: Horn, Hazel V [mailto:hor...@archildrens.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 8:50 AM To: 'Weems, Joyce K.'; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question We have 2 billing codes for IHC. One for the first IHC and another for all additional IHC's on the same case. Hazel Horn Supervisor of Histology/Autopsy/Transcription Anatomic Pathology Arkansas Children's Hospital 1 Children's Way | Slot 820| Little Rock, AR 72202 501.364.4240 direct | 501.364.1241 fax hor...@archildrens.org archildrens.org -Original Message- From: Weems, Joyce K. [mailto:joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 8:13 AM To: 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question I do it every day - change every first to 88342. Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Cartun, Richard Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:33 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] IHC billing question 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 Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ** The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for deliveri
Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question
We have CoPath. Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: Horn, Hazel V [mailto:hor...@archildrens.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 12:00 PM To: Weems, Joyce K.; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: IHC billing question Meditech Hazel Horn Supervisor of Histology/Autopsy/Transcription Anatomic Pathology Arkansas Children's Hospital 1 Children's Way | Slot 820| Little Rock, AR 72202 501.364.4240 direct | 501.364.1241 fax hor...@archildrens.org archildrens.org -Original Message- From: Weems, Joyce K. [mailto:joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 10:51 AM To: Horn, Hazel V; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: IHC billing question And what LIS to you have? Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: Horn, Hazel V [mailto:hor...@archildrens.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 11:50 AM To: Weems, Joyce K.; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: IHC billing question We have 2 billing codes for IHC. One for the first IHC and another for all additional IHC's on the same case. Hazel Horn Supervisor of Histology/Autopsy/Transcription Anatomic Pathology Arkansas Children's Hospital 1 Children's Way | Slot 820| Little Rock, AR 72202 501.364.4240 direct | 501.364.1241 fax hor...@archildrens.org archildrens.org -Original Message- From: Weems, Joyce K. [mailto:joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 8:13 AM To: 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question I do it every day - change every first to 88342. Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Cartun, Richard Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:33 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] IHC billing question 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
Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question
Meditech Hazel Horn Supervisor of Histology/Autopsy/Transcription Anatomic Pathology Arkansas Children's Hospital 1 Children's Way | Slot 820| Little Rock, AR 72202 501.364.4240 direct | 501.364.1241 fax hor...@archildrens.org archildrens.org -Original Message- From: Weems, Joyce K. [mailto:joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 10:51 AM To: Horn, Hazel V; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: IHC billing question And what LIS to you have? Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: Horn, Hazel V [mailto:hor...@archildrens.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 11:50 AM To: Weems, Joyce K.; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: IHC billing question We have 2 billing codes for IHC. One for the first IHC and another for all additional IHC's on the same case. Hazel Horn Supervisor of Histology/Autopsy/Transcription Anatomic Pathology Arkansas Children's Hospital 1 Children's Way | Slot 820| Little Rock, AR 72202 501.364.4240 direct | 501.364.1241 fax hor...@archildrens.org archildrens.org -Original Message- From: Weems, Joyce K. [mailto:joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 8:13 AM To: 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question I do it every day - change every first to 88342. Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Cartun, Richard Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:33 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] IHC billing question 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 Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ___
Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question
And what LIS to you have? Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: Horn, Hazel V [mailto:hor...@archildrens.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 11:50 AM To: Weems, Joyce K.; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: IHC billing question We have 2 billing codes for IHC. One for the first IHC and another for all additional IHC's on the same case. Hazel Horn Supervisor of Histology/Autopsy/Transcription Anatomic Pathology Arkansas Children's Hospital 1 Children's Way | Slot 820| Little Rock, AR 72202 501.364.4240 direct | 501.364.1241 fax hor...@archildrens.org archildrens.org -Original Message- From: Weems, Joyce K. [mailto:joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 8:13 AM To: 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question I do it every day - change every first to 88342. Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Cartun, Richard Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:33 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] IHC billing question 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 Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ___ Histonet mailing list Histone
Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question
We have 2 billing codes for IHC. One for the first IHC and another for all additional IHC's on the same case. Hazel Horn Supervisor of Histology/Autopsy/Transcription Anatomic Pathology Arkansas Children's Hospital 1 Children's Way | Slot 820| Little Rock, AR 72202 501.364.4240 direct | 501.364.1241 fax hor...@archildrens.org archildrens.org -Original Message- From: Weems, Joyce K. [mailto:joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 8:13 AM To: 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question I do it every day - change every first to 88342. Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Cartun, Richard Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:33 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] IHC billing question 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 Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ** The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@list
Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question
That's what we do as well. Martha Ward Wake Forest Baptist Health From: Weems, Joyce K. [joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 9:13 AM To: 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question I do it every day - change every first to 88342. Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Cartun, Richard Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:33 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] IHC billing question 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 Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question
I do it every day - change every first to 88342. Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Saint Joseph's Hospital and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Cartun, Richard Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:33 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] IHC billing question 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 Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
RE: [Histonet] IHC billing question
We do our billing manually through CoPath as well. From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] on behalf of Mike Pence [mpe...@grhs.net] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:44 PM To: 'WILLIAM DESALVO'; Cartun, Richard Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: [Histonet] IHC billing question We do all of our IHC billing manually. -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of WILLIAM DESALVO Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 4:43 PM To: Cartun, Richard Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu 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 > 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 > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question
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 Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 30, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Mike Pence wrote: > > We do all of our IHC billing manually. > > -Original Message- > From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of WILLIAM > DESALVO > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 4:43 PM > To: Cartun, Richard > Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > 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 >> 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 >> Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu >> http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > > ___ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > > ___ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
RE: [Histonet] IHC billing question
We do all of our IHC billing manually. -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of WILLIAM DESALVO Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 4:43 PM To: Cartun, Richard Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu 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 > 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 > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
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 > 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 > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] IHC billing question
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 Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] IHC Billing Question
Greetings from Doha! This was much probably discussed before, but I was wondering if you could help me with a query in regards to billing. For the sites that are still doing an IHC negative reagent control for each patient specimen, do you bill for the negative control? Using code 88341? I believe it should be billed (since when and if performed correctly the negative control follows a normal IHC technique) however I am completely new to the billing subject. My previous experience is based in Portugal and UK (where billing does not exist) and I've been introduced to this topic since I joined my current institution that will be following the North American Healthcare model. So... any help will be GREATLY appreciated!! Many Thanks in advance, Joana Joana Moreira Supervisor - Anatomical Pathology Department of Pathology Sidra Medical & Research Center PO Box 26999 | Doha, Qatar Direct Line +974-4404-2036 jmore...@sidra.org | www.sidra.org Disclaimer: This email and its attachments may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any reading, printing, storage, disclosure, copying or any other action taken in respect of this e-mail is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by using the reply function and then permanently delete what you have received. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Sidra Medical and Research Center. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
