We used to charge the person (patient, hospital or pathologist) who requested
the consult.René
On Thursday, January 14, 2016 1:01 PM, Noelle Linke via Histonet
<histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
Question for anyone who may handle admin staff: If a patient or an outside
hospital/doctor requests a consult and you need to fedex slides/reports to
another institution do you charge the patient to send these items or does your
facility eat those charges?
Thank you,
Noëlle
Noëlle Linke, MS, HTL(ASCP) QIHC
Manager, Anatomic Pathology
Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories
Cottage Health System
nli...@sbch.org<mailto:nli...@sbch.org>
Phone: (805) 324-9814
Fax: (805) 696-6433
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