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Post In pt Billing for palliative care services
Author: nancymason
Date: Sep 16, 2009 4:48 pm
Our hospital (home-care services) has a complimentary out-pt phone support palliative care service. When a home pt is admitted to the hospital the in-pt palliative care service is notified for continuity of care. The oncologist would not support the pal care consult because of the belief that a pt receiving chemotherapy will not be reimbursed for the chemo therapy if palliative care is consulted on the pt. Can that be true? This sounds ridiculous since it is most appropriate to support a patient that is receiving chemo and may need symptom management etc. Please respond.
NM
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+ Re:In pt Billing for palliative care services (by JulieP on 09/17/2009)
You need to question your Oncologist on where he/she is getting that information from. We have never encountered that issue and we are a fairly large academic medical center with a strong PC group.

Julie Pipke,CPC, RM Medical College of WI

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