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#My lab master charge on my card professional#

The technical component is billed by the laboratory and the practice only bills for the professional component.Д«. In this scenario, there are two options:ДЄ. The purchasing of the technical component is only allowed if the practice reads its own slides. Medicare allows the physician to purchase the technical component of the pathology services from an outside reference laboratory. For laboratory services, you will only be reimbursed for the services for which you are certified through the Federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) to perform, and you must not bill our Customers for any laboratory services for which you lack the applicable CLIA certification however, this requirement does not apply to laboratory services rendered by physicians, practitioners or medical groups in office settings that have been granted 'waived' status under CLIA.Д«est biller - is there any chance your client is using the wrong words, and is actually asking you about billing for the professional component and/or the technical component of lab work?ДЈ. Passthrough billing is not permitted and may not be billed to our Customers. If you are a physician, practitioner or medical group, you must only bill for services that you or your staff perform. Here is a blurb from United Healthcare about Pass-through billing: Don't confuse that issue with pass-through billing for labs. Note that Medicare allows pass-through billing for certain drugs and biologicals. I understand that the concept of waived status complicates these relationships a bit, but I think I have laid out the accepted / expected billing scenario for the non-waived billing situations. The commercial laboratory must do the billing, under their own numbers.

It is my understanding that a doctor may not bill for labs sent out to a commercial laboratory. It is my understanding that any other lab must have its own CLIA number and NPI number(s), and must bill Medicare themselves for all lab work done. A lab for a doctors group would bill under the CLIA and NPI numbers of the doctors group. It is my understanding that the only labs that a doctor can bill Medicare for are those labs he does personally in his own Physician Office Lab (POL), using his own CLIA number and NPI number(s).

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(You could substitute independent pathologist for commercial laboratory in this paragraph) Your client probably wants to know if you know how to handle all parts of this transaction, billing-wise. In other words, your client would buy the services from the lab at maybe a discounted price, would mark up the price he charges for these labs, and would then pass that increased charge either to the patient or the patient's insurance company. The doctor would then submit a bill to the patient's insurance for the lab work done by the outside commercial laboratory. The doctor would pay the commercial lab for the work they did. The laboratory would do the work, and bill the doctor for the work.

'An example of Pass-Through Billing would be if your physician drew blood and sent it to an outside, commercial (non POL) laboratory. Here is a very good, detailВ response on 'pass through' billng from another board (I take no ownership). I did find that providers using this 'pass through' billing could beВ violating Starks and Anti-Kickback Laws. I agree that I could not find anything that prohibits a hospital from doing so. But wondering if this allowed and if a laboratory has ever been held accountable for the billing of an entity who is doing this? Thanks for any help! Are there any known cases where this is a problem? I have found document cases where a physician cannot do his own laboratory billing and make a profit off of what the laboratory is charging him/her. They (these facilities) in turn doВ the third partyВ billing and charge whatever they want to. We provide testing to a hospital or another laboratory at a fair market fee. ДЄs many of you know we are a newer National Laboratory and we are often requested to work out new agreements from time to time. This message has been cross posted to the following eGroups: Health Care Billing and Reimbursement and Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer Health Care.