I've recently acquired a new physician that provides ALCAT and Saliva kits to patients. These patients complete the kits at home and mail to the respective labs. The labs then process the kits and send the report to the doctor for review. The current practice of this doctor is to bill the lab/path codes to the patient's health plan for reimbursement of these kits as the processing lab is paid directly by the physician's office. I am of the understanding that path and lab/chem codes are utilized for the actual processing and reporting of the labs, however not ever having done lab billing wanted to be perfectly clear that this was not the appropriate method for billing these kits. Any insight as to how these kits, not the processing of the kits, should be billed would be greatly appreciated!