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旅美散记.2010(4)——From Mini Blog
玩的就是心跳—于Sears Tower103层外墙的玻璃盒子里~
很有意思,谢谢分享!
9楼:
我们真的不和钱打交道。样本到我们手里,我们做必须做的一切,从不管病人的经济情况。但我对数字感兴趣,对我们工作的报销情况约知1,2:
我们的收费分2部分:技术部分和职业部分(不是很好翻译)technical fee and professional fee. For most specimens, technical fee and professional fee is about half and half. There is a universal billing code book covering all the medical services all over the country. We change jobs but our biling codes stay the same. For pathology services, for example, most biopsies are 88305 and most insurance companies and medicare reimburse about $100/part. If a prostate case has biopsy cores in 12 containers, pathologists tell the billing people or secretary 88305 x 12. Same is true for skin, GI or cervical biopsies, one container is 88305 x 1. Then we have 88307 for large benign specimes such as hysterectomies for fibroids and placentas, which will reimburse a little more than $100. 88309 are for tumor resection cases with higher reimburse rate. Any extra studies we do, we bill additional codes. For example, 88312 if we did Giemsa stain for H.pylori in gastric biopsy or PAS for fungi. I think ThinPrep gets reimbursed much less than $100, HPV Hibrid Caption test is about $150.
Poor people get medical care too. All the facilities that have received federal funds must treat emergency patients. It means all the emergent rooms have to treat patients when they come. It is the law. Our hospital have about 20% patients who never pay us a penny for our services. But whenever they come, we have to treat them. Clinical billing is complicated too. For example, if the patient comes to the hospital without colitis but got colitis during hospital stay, i don't think we would get paid by treating colitis. For a certain diagnosis, medicare (the largest goverment payer for medical services) pays a certain amount. If we messes up the medical care and patients get complications, we treat the complications for free.
It is too much to tell. Next time.
People older than 65 years old get medicare insurance from federal goverment. Poor people younger than 65 years old especially children can get some insurance from local government. In connecticut, we have Charter Oak and Huskies (two types of insurance) for poor people. Working people pay high tax for these free services. I pay tax that can feed a few families. But i feel OK because anybody who needs these help can get it including me (God forbid i will never need to use government help).