[Histonet] 2014 CPT Changes

[Susie Hargrove]

Hello,

I know this subject had been looked at many times. I just want to see if I am correct before I start doing anything different.



1.  88342 , not much change . We can still just bill once per site, per case. This is per single antibody per Specimen. If I have a case with two parts and each part has 3 immuno's ordered I will bill them all 88342, Even if I do it on multiple blocks of the same specimen, I will still charge once.

If one of these antibodies is a cocktail, I will bill 88342 for the first and 88343 for subsequent parts of that cocktail, and I can do this per specimen. So the only change I see here is the breakdown of the cocktail charges into 88343.



2. Medicare codes, GO461 is ordered for the first antibody , per specimen site per case, all additional antibodies, including cocktails , if any, are billed GO462. As before only 1 antibody can be billed by site/source.

Now just to work out how the billing will flip over once  the charges go across.

Is anybody doing it differently?



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Susie Hargrove  HT (ASCP)

Histology Technical Specialist

United Regional Health Care

Wichita Falls, Texas 76301

Ph 940-764-3881

Fax-940-764-3129

















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