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DOS Guidance Sows Confusion

Published on Tue Oct 10, 2017

Stick with specimen acquisition. You know that the date of service (DOS) for clinical lab tests and the technical component of pathology specimens is the collection date - The Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Chapter 16, Section 40.8 stipulates as much. With no current specific DOS guidance for the professional component of pathology specimens, the following logic has compelled most labs [...]
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