CatchTheWind
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Medicare just changed their rules regarding pathology DOS.
They now expect you to use the biopsy date as the DOS of the technical component and the read date as the DOS of the professional component. This means that if you have been billing for the global service, you now have to start splitting your path claims into separate technical and professional components, with different dates of service for each (unless your pathologist reads the slides the same day the biopsy was taken). You'll get paid the same as if you billed the global code.
(We got this information from DermCoder (www.dermcoder.com)).
They now expect you to use the biopsy date as the DOS of the technical component and the read date as the DOS of the professional component. This means that if you have been billing for the global service, you now have to start splitting your path claims into separate technical and professional components, with different dates of service for each (unless your pathologist reads the slides the same day the biopsy was taken). You'll get paid the same as if you billed the global code.
(We got this information from DermCoder (www.dermcoder.com)).