[Histonet] IHC billing question

[Michael Mihalik]

Am I misunderstanding, or should it be per specimen and not per case?

Michael Mihalik
PathView Systems | cell: 214.733.7688 | 800.798.3540 | fax: 952.241.7369

-----Original Message-----
From: Horn, Hazel V [mailto:HornHV at archildrens.org] 
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 8:50 AM
To: 'Weems, Joyce K.'; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question

We have 2 billing codes for IHC.  One for the first IHC and another for all
additional IHC's on the same case.

Hazel Horn
Supervisor of Histology/Autopsy/Transcription Anatomic Pathology Arkansas
Children's Hospital
1 Children's Way | Slot 820| Little Rock, AR 72202
501.364.4240 direct | 501.364.1241 fax
hornhv at archildrens.org
archildrens.org





-----Original Message-----
From: Weems, Joyce K. [mailto:Joyce.Weems at emoryhealthcare.org]
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 8:13 AM
To: 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question

I do it every day  - change every first to 88342.

Joyce Weems
Pathology Manager
678-843-7376 Phone
678-843-7831 Fax
joyce.weems at emoryhealthcare.org



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[mailto:histonet-bounces at lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Cartun,
Richard
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:33 PM
To: histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] IHC billing question

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
Pathology Hartford Hospital
80 Seymour Street
Hartford, CT  06102
(860) 972-1596
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