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Originally Posted by JMintzer
Never, in my 40 years of practice, did any of my billing staff decide what to bill. I made that decision each and every time...
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You weren't an employee of a large health care organization. Doctors at TVH don't have their own billing staff. They are EMPLOYEES, this isn't a private practice and they're not contractors or sub-contractors or doctors who lease space in someone else's medical center.
The doctors input what they did and the diagnostic code that corresponds with it. The billing department matches the diagnostic code with a billing code (or multiple billing codes) and inputs that. If there's more than one billing code for a diagnostic code, or series of diagnostic codes, then the billing department decides which billing code is applied. The doctor has nothing to do with it at that point.