You can contract for services to another lab or hospital and depending upon the terms of the contract, you may be able to bill the patient. For example, you send all of your HER2's and ER/PR to another lab to be stained and quantified into a score. You may contract with the other lab for them to charge you a flat fee for the service and you will bill the patient for 88361x3.
The other side is that you can contract for the other hospital to do the test, bill the patient and your hospital pays no fee but misses out on some of the compensation. Steve -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Cynthia Pyse Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 1:52 PM To: 'Sara Baldwin/mhhcc.org'; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: [Histonet] BILLING QUESTION We have a contract with the hospitals, this comes from our billing manger. We bill the hospitals, then they bill the patient. Cindy Pyse, CLT, HT (ASCP) Histology Supervisor X-Cell Laboratories e-mail cp...@x-celllab.com -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Sara Baldwin/mhhcc.org Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 11:59 AM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] BILLING QUESTION Histonetters: If you do some work for another hospital (Histology) can you bill the hospital or do you have to bill the patient directly? Is there a statute or Regulation out there about this? Thanks Pathology Supervisor Kathy Baldwin, SCT (ASCP) Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center sbald...@mhhcc.org Ph 812-482-0210, 482-0216, Fax 812-482-0232, Pager 812-481-0897 Confidential information, Authorized use only. _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
