How to bill leukemias

From: Michelle Fiordalisi (Fiordam@labcorp.com)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 11:14:37 EST


I was just informed by management that HCFA is requiring us to bill the technical and
professional (pathologist review) components of our leukemia profiles separately for
hospital accounts.  Does anyone use a separate CPT code for the interpretation aspect
of immunophenotyping and what is it?  Or is CPT code 88180 meant to encompass all
aspects of flow testing?

Also, does anyone use a CPT code to capture the cost of prepping solid tissue for
analysis? If so, what code?

Thanks for you help.

Michelle Fiordalisi, Ph.D.
LabCorp-Center for Molecular Biology and Pathology
1-800-361-7700 x7144
fiordalm@labcorp.com



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