Surprise Instruction:
Report Special Stains Per Block
Published on Wed Jan 02, 2013
Should you throw the ‘specimen’ convention out the window? For surgical pathology ancillary procedures, “the specimen” is the universal unit of service -- or is it? If you could report one more immuno stain for an additional block, your practice would gain an extra $98.15 in pay (based on the Medicare physician fee schedule national amount for global 88342 using conversion [...]