Clinical pathology consultations: reports, requests, and reimbursement.
Pathologists have been consultants from the beginning of the specialty, and this advice, the author says, is needed more by clinicians today than ever before. Here, he details what true consultation reports are, how to produce them accurately and rapidly, how to get requests, and how to get paid under the regulations of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act.
D008499:Medical Records; D010338:Pathology, Clinical / Q000191:economics*; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States