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
ry 25, 2012 9:37 AM To: 'histo...@list.utsouthwestern.edu' Subject: RE: [Histonet] 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 up

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

2012-01-26 Thread Lester Raff MD
AM To: 'histo...@list.utsouthwestern.edu' Subject: RE: [Histonet] 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 lin

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

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
Agree, there will be changes with the HITECH legislation, reimburshment meaningful use and coding set revisions on the horizon. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Jesus Ellin Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:18:17 To: Cc: ; Subject: Re: [Histonet] RE: NCCI

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
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" wrote: > Wow. What made them ch

RE: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

2011-12-30 Thread histotech
Wow. What made them change their minds? There are many times when we stain different blocks of a single specimen and only one lights up. I, too, would be interested in an official document stating the change. Thanks! Michelle -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthweste