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Reader Question:

End the 99000 Debate Once and For All

Published on Thu Sep 13, 2012

Question: Our OB/GYN group is under new management, and our new manager is insisting I can and should be billing 99000 with all our screening and diagnostic pap smears. However, I feel this is incorrect. We have a satellite laboratory for the hospital right here in our office building and we just put the Paps aside for the pathology lab in the main hospital. It's the main hospital that supplies the courier to come and pick up the specimens daily. I don't feel our physicians incur any "above and beyond" expense to handle these Paps. It's the hospital that is sending the courier and billing for it. Am I correct in thinking that 99000 is only if there is an extra expense involved with handling Paps? If so, can anyone help me approach the new manager without making any waves? Is there an actual site that I can print off [...]
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