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

2012-01-26 Thread Hannen, Valerie
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 contemplating revamping

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2012-01-26 Thread Weems, Joyce
@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

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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

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2012-01-26 Thread Weems, Joyce
-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? -Original

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2011-12-31 Thread Lester Raff MD
: [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, histot...@imagesbyhopper.com

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2011-12-31 Thread Kim Donadio
From: Lester Raff MD lr...@uropartners.com To: Jesus Ellin jel...@yumaregional.org; histot...@imagesbyhopper.com Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu; Webb, Dorothy L dorothy.l.w...@healthpartners.com Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 10:56 AM Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update Below

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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

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

2011-12-31 Thread Weems, Joyce
: [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 you would

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

2011-12-31 Thread Kim Donadio
histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu; Webb, Dorothy L dorothy.l.w...@healthpartners.com Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 1:03 PM Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update plus copper stain CPT change For the past two years we have been able to bill immunos and special stains per block

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2011-12-31 Thread joelle weaver
: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu; dorothy.l.w...@healthpartners.com 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
...@imagesbyhopper.com Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu; dorothy.l.w...@healthpartners.com Subject: 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

RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

2011-12-31 Thread Lester Raff MD
trathbo...@somerset-healthcare.com Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:21:28 To: lr...@uropartners.com; jel...@yumaregional.org; histot...@imagesbyhopper.com Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu; dorothy.l.w...@healthpartners.com Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update Do you have the link

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

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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

[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] 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 336-716-2104

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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 my billing

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2011-12-30 Thread Jesus Ellin
...@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