[Histonet] tests on old cases

[Normington Lacy]

At our institution, if the request is received more than "30" days from the collect date, we create a new HOV for the patient.  That way the addendum is still on the same case number.  The collect date is changed by our LIS department to be the "request to pull from archive" based on Medicare requirements.  We add the requesting physician to the existing case.

Lacy Normington, HTL(ASCP)CM
Manager, Surgical Pathology Lab Services
UW Health
600 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53792-2472
Phone: 608-890-9373

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To: Noelle Linke
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If the request is received more than "30" days from the original date-of-service, we re-accession the specimen, and bill and report the test result(s) under the new accession number.  The requesting MD now becomes the submitting MD.

Richard

Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic Proteomics Laboratory Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology Hartford Hospital
80 Seymour Street
Hartford, CT  06102
(860) 972-1596
(860) 545-2204 Fax

 
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From: Noelle Linke via Histonet [mailto:histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu]
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 11:42 AM
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Subject: [Histonet] tests on old cases

Hi all,

We have been getting a lot of requests for tests such as Lynch syndrome on old hospital cases.  How do all of you handle the billing on these?  Do you ask the clinician to send updated insurance information and then log in a new case?

Thank you,
Noëlle

Noëlle Linke, MS, HTL(ASCP) QIHC
Manager, Anatomic Pathology
Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories
nlinke at sbch.org<mailto:nlinke at sbch.org>
Phone: (805) 324-9814
Fax: (805) 696-6433




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