[Histonet] BILLING QUESTION

[Feher, Stephen]

You can contract for services to another lab or hospital and depending
upon the terms of the contract, you may be able to bill the patient.
For example, you send all of your HER2's and ER/PR to another lab to be
stained and quantified into a score.  You may contract with the other
lab for them to charge you a flat fee for the service and you will bill
the patient for 88361x3.  

The other side is that you can contract for the other hospital to do the
test, bill the patient and your hospital pays no fee but misses out on
some of the compensation. 


Steve

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Cynthia
Pyse
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 1:52 PM
To: 'Sara Baldwin/mhhcc.org'; histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: RE: [Histonet] BILLING QUESTION

We have a contract with the hospitals, this comes from our billing
manger.
We bill the hospitals, then they bill the patient. 

Cindy Pyse, CLT, HT (ASCP)
Histology Supervisor
X-Cell Laboratories
e-mail cpyse <@t> x-celllab.com



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Sara
Baldwin/mhhcc.org
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 11:59 AM
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Subject: [Histonet] BILLING QUESTION

Histonetters:
If you do some work for another hospital (Histology) can you bill the
hospital or do you have to bill the patient directly?  Is there a
statute or Regulation out there about this?

Thanks
Pathology Supervisor
Kathy Baldwin, SCT (ASCP)
Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center sbaldwin <@t> mhhcc.org Ph
812-482-0210, 482-0216,  Fax 812-482-0232, Pager 812-481-0897
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