hipscrack t1_iu5y8vm wrote on October 28, 2022 at 8:11 PM

Reply to comment by gracetw22 in Fridaily by donteatmydog

I'm not an expert by any means, but I think they treat the decal as an additional process that's done to the biopsy. So 88305 for the bone marrow bx + 88311 for having to decal it, so they can charge for the procedure and charge for the reagent.

Hospital billing is stupid.

gracetw22 t1_iu6flax wrote on October 28, 2022 at 10:16 PM

Probably, I’m just a little salty that it’s around 60k of total lab and pathology charges and they couldn’t throw in making the bone less bone-y - there are a bunch of separate charges for getting it, another one for preparing, several for all the different readings… feels like buying a new car and hearing the gas cap is an extra 50 bucks