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See How Your Hospital Lab Can Bill TC for Non-Hospital Patients

Published on Tue Jul 15, 2014

You can choose who bills the payer. Question: When is a hospital lab an independent lab? Answer: when it performs tests for a non-hospital patient. That answer is the key to understanding a billing conundrum that some of our readers faced and asked about.  Look at This Scenario A dermatology practice employs its own pathologist, but sends specimens to a [...]
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