[Histonet] IHC billing question

[Mike Pence]

We do all of our IHC billing manually.

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Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 4:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question

We have to manually review the IHC billing also and continue to audit. It took billing and IT three months to create the logic to automate billing for a specimen and account for combination of there being the possibility of 88341, 88342 & 88344 and the proper combinations.

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> On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Cartun, Richard <Richard.Cartun <@t> hhchealth.org> wrote:
> 
> Effective January 1, 2015, our LIS team removed all of the CPT 88342 codes for IHC from our CoPath stain dictionary since you couldn't tell whether a Cytokeratin-7 was being performed as an "88341" or as an "88342".  Now, as you might have expected,  none of the "inpatient" IHC testing has been accounted for (the outpatient IHC has been billed manually from the pathology report), and they want someone to go back and enter all the CPT codes into the system (hopefully, not me!).  Has anyone else encountered this problem?  Thanks (I think).
> 
> Richard
> 
> Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
> Director, Histology & Immunopathology
> Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs Assistant Director, Anatomic 
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