CEO SUMMARY: As the debate grows more heated, supporters of hospital outpatient department (HOPD) billing schemes have ramped up their defense of the practice. The president of the National Association of Rural Hospitals tells THE DARK REPORT that rural hospitals are permitted to bill for hospital lab outreach program services under Medicare’s 70/30 shell rule. […]
Rural Hospital Spokesman: Hospital Lab Outreach Programs Are Legal
Calls phrase ‘pass-through billing’ a ‘mischaracterization’ of hospital outreach programs
- By R. Lewis Dark
- > From the Volume XXV No. 10 - July 9, 2018 Issue
- Tags: billing and coding, care contracts, clinical lab, clinical laboratories, Clinical Laboratory, clinical laboratory testing, clinical laboratory tests, dark report, disruptive innovation, healthcare billing, hospital billing, lab outreach, lab testing, lab tests, laboratories, laboratory outreach, laboratory testing, laboratory tests, managed care, managed care contracts, medical billing, medical billing fraud, Medicare, pass through billing, the dark report
