[Histonet] Billing question

[Zajic Kari]

99% of the time our biopsies are ordered with R/O H.Pylori from the GI doc in which we prove or disprove with the Giemsa stain.  
I don't know, not my call but I'd sure want one and would pay for one if I was having a stomach biopsy! 
I guess it's facility-wide call...it happens to be a policy here put in place by the Medical Director and he's very "old-school", we even keep old handwritten log books here since the inception of the hospital....lucky me. hahaha 

Kari Marie Zajic HTL,MLT
Histology Supervisor
Palms West Hospital
Pathology Department
13001 State Road Eighty
Loxahatchee, Florida 33470
phone:      (561)798-6036
telefax:     (561)753-4298
voicemail: (561)753-4299
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Cartun [mailto:Rcartun <@t> harthosp.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:14 AM
To: Zajic Kari; histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu; Brandi Farris
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Billing question


That's not the point.  The real question is, "Why are you doing it if
it's not medically necessary?".

Richard

Richard W. Cartun, Ph.D.
Director, Immunopathology & Histology
Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology
Hartford Hospital
80 Seymour Street
Hartford, CT  06102
(860) 545-1596
(860) 545-0174 Fax

>>> "Zajic Kari" <Kari.Zajic <@t> HCAhealthcare.com> 09/07/06 8:29 AM >>>
We also bill for a Giemsa on all stomach specimens...if it's being
performed, read and diagnosed out, why wouldn't you be able to charge
for the work? Did he give you a reason? That's like saying oh, you can't
charge for services done...

Kari Marie Zajic HTL,MLT
Histology Supervisor
Palms West Hospital
Pathology Department
13001 State Road Eighty
Loxahatchee, Florida 33470
phone:      (561)798-6036
telefax:     (561)753-4298
voicemail: (561)753-4299
pager:       (561)610-4949
email: Kari.Zajic <@t> HCAHealthcare.com 

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu]On Behalf Of Brandi
Farris
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:13 PM
To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] Billing question


Hello,

Our hospital recently had an insurance/billing consultant give us some
advice. We currently perform and bill for a giemsa stain (special stain
group I) on all stomach and esophagus biopsy specimens. The consultant
told us that we could no longer bill for those. What stain is everyone
else doing and how are you billing it?

Thanks
Brandi Farris
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