[Histonet] IHC billing question

Mon May 4 12:27:16 CDT 2015

Hi Joyce,
What about if you are using 88360 for Estrogen receptor and Progesterone receptor? An example would be an order for ER, PR, p63, AE1/3? Would it be 88360 x 2, 88342, 88341 or would be it 88360 x 2 and 88341 x 2? I'm not sure if the  quantitative charge takes precedence over the 88342 being the first identifiable antibody or if they are stand alone?

Thanks,
Jessica Piche,HT (ASCP)
Waterbury Hospital

-----Original Message-----
From: Weems, Joyce K. [mailto:Joyce.Weems at emoryhealthcare.org]
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 2:22 PM
To: 'Michael Mihalik'; 'Horn, Hazel V'; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: Re: [Histonet] IHC billing question

It's per specimen - 88342 for the first ab on a specimen, 88341 for ea additional on same specimen. (Not multiple blocks on same specimen).

Joyce Weems
Pathology Manager
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joyce.weems at emoryhealthcare.org

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From: Michael Mihalik [mailto:mike at pathview.com]
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 1:06 PM
To: 'Horn, Hazel V'; Weems, Joyce K.; 'Cartun, Richard'; histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: RE: [Histonet] IHC billing question

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
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-----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

www.saintjosephsatlanta.org
5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road
Atlanta, GA 30342

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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
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Hartford, CT  06102
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