John,
It is my understanding that the accessioning, gross assisting, and transcription is all part of the technical along with the processing, embedding, etc.  We charge the hospitals for the portion that we do here at the lab for the technical and they bill the patient.  The actual gross done by the pathologist or pathologist assistant is part of the professional component.

Bonnie McMahill
Pathology Assoc. Inc
Spokane, WA

----- Original Message -----
From: John Spair 
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 15:00:43 -0700
To: "'histonet@pathology.swmed.edu'" 
Subject: Pathology Billing - Technical Versus Professional


> I have a question for you people that do technical and professional billing
> seperately.  For instance we as a hospital only bill the technical component
> and our pathology group bills their own professional component for
> pathology.
> 
> Some people tell me that professional component is interpretation and
> report.  We if that is so, doesn't that mean that these expenses for
> transcription, report preparation, etc. should fall under professional and
> real technical is basically the expenses of making the slides for the
> pathologists??
> 
> Thanks for your responses.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> John Spair, System Manager
> Pathology Services
> LABORATORIES Northwest
> MultiCare Health System
> john.spair@multicare.org
> 253-403-6090
> 
> 
> 

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