Lindsay Ayala--LA

Document ID: CMS-2013-0051-0022
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services
Received Date: March 27 2013, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: March 28 2013, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: March 18 2013, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: May 17 2013, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 1jx-84fy-j05r
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Medicare Programs: Inpatient Billing in Hospitals; Part B

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I work for a Gastroenterologist who sees patients in the hospital as a consult all the time. He will usually refer them for further testing. The testing he further recommends, usually gets denied because they deem in unnecessary. But some of these test are necessary if simply to rule certain conditions out as a diagnosis. I think the new regulation can possibly get some more providers paid for their claims. Now, I don't know how the hospitals will bill. I don't fool with the hospital filing and coding at all.