Wiki Clarification on cardiac diagnostic testing

[Cats3]

I am having a discussion with someone about the billing of diagnostic cardiac testing such as Echos, Stress tests, etc...
When it comes to observation/IP patients do you bill the date the test is actually done or the date the physician gets around to signing the chart? Help would be appreciated on this!
Thanks,
Laura

 

[CardioCoder79]

Are you billing global or professional?

Global would be the date of study and professional would be the date of interpretation.

Hope this helps!