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17950903

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-10-22
pubmed:abstractText
Compensation for pathologist and clinical laboratory services generally depends upon standardized procedural coding systems, the coverage determinations of individual insurance companies, fee schedules that assign reimbursement rates for those services, and contractual compensation arrangements. Procedural coding relies primarily on the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) nomenclature. Disease conditions, signs, and symptoms are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification. The single largest health insurance "company" in the United States is the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and most private insurance companies look to CMS as a model for health services compensation. CMS uses a Physician Fee Schedule and a separate Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, whose designs and annual updates differ.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0272-2712
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
27
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
875-91, viii
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Coding, coverage, and compensation for pathology and laboratory medicine services.
pubmed:affiliation
ARUP Laboratories, University of Utah School of Medicine, 500 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA. weissrl@aruplab.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article