[Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

[histotech <@t> imagesbyhopper.com]

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

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[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Amber
McKenzie
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 3:07 PM
To: Martha Ward-Pathology; Webb, Dorothy L;
'histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu'
Subject: [Histonet] RE: NCCI policy update

Where can I get the article to show my billing dept/pathologists?

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[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Martha
Ward-Pathology
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 1:13 PM
To: Webb, Dorothy L; 'histonet <@t> 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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[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Webb,
Dorothy L
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 1:33 PM
To: 'histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu'
Subject: [Histonet] NCCI policy update

Is everyone aware that beginning 1/1/12, we can no longer bill for each
block regarding IHC billing, only one unit of billing for each part type no
matter how many blocks are stained?  Also IHC "cocktail" stains, such as
PIN4 must now be billed as one unit even though multiple antibodies are
reported out.

Kind of a surprising reversal of the policy set in motion 10/1/2009.
SPECIMEN becomes the unit of service rather than block(s) for IHC codes
88342, 88360, and 88361.

Happy New Year to everyone out there.  May 2012 find you happiness and
health!

Dorothy Webb, HT
Regions Histology TS
651-254-2962



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