Re: backdating reports

LOL. DO they collect they money? What happens if the doc doesn't pay? Lose privileges. It's beyond me why these "professionals" behave so childishly. They can't STAND to have anyone "beneath" them tell them what they have to do. I worked in MR in a very, very small hospital, and even there it was like pulling teeth to get some (even a guy who had to take a 2 minute walk from his office to our dept across the parking lot) to sign off their records.


Marsha wrote:
jmorngstar@xxxxxxx wrote:

Phyllis Nilsson wrote:

I don't know about right now, but when I was still working at the
hospital, Medicare gave them 30 to bill and then it was gone. More than
once we lost reimbursement from Medicare because one of the docs didn't
do his dictation and the billing didn't go out until the report was in
the chart.


Phyllis,
According to medicare.gov, you don't know what you are talking about.
The hospital may have told you they needed their money, so they gave
the dept 30 days to bill, but Medicare says ONE YEAR. Furthermore,
this would be a very unusual hospital that billed by reports. You must
be mistaken. Doctors bill by reports because they get different E/M
levels. Hospital charge their charges and include products they have
used, time in surgery, etc. I can't imagine the hospital billing for
physicians because for the 30 years I have been associated with MT and
crossover to billing, even radiologists and anesthesiologists had
outside billing people to cover their time separate from the hospital
charges.
Is this hospital you worked at still in business?

Janice


Janice,
I'm not sure of the exact criteria, but on some insurances, the hospital where I work needs the Discharge Summary in order to bill, and the OP note in some cases for coding purposes. Med Records has called our office a few times, because one of our docs was holding up billing. Another hospital in our area (Phyllis would probably know which one) has started charging doctors $100.00 a day for every report that's not dictated within 48 hours.

Marsha/Ohio


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