Dark Daily’s List of Anatomic Pathology’s Most Costly Coding Errors

Oct 6, 2006 | Coding, Billing, and Collections, Laboratory Pathology

Coding Error #2: Not Knowing when to Separately Code for Multiple Specimens This coding tip relates to how specimens are handled and processed in the histology laboratory. AMA procedural terminology states that 2-tissue specimens from the same patient (but separately identified, such as with endoscopic biopsies, skin lesions, etc.) are each appropriately assigned an individual code reflective of the proper level of service. This is a basic element of accurate coding. But it is easily...
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