Billing for the provision of antigen negative units

[kbadjie]

:cool: Hello All,

Just wondering what is the billing practice at your institutions for the provision of antigen negative RBCs for patients with antibodies. My institution does not currently bill for this service, but others indicate this is a billable test and there is a CPT code for it. I would like to know if you bill manually or bill with a billing application/program. Also, if you bill per each antigen tested or bill per unit provided to the patient.

[Mary]

We charge for each unit typed regardless of whether or not it is negative or positive.

[donellda]

We bill for each antigen that we type for but we do not charge the patient for typings that are antigen positive. These are charged to our workload along with the controls for our antigen typings.

[shyounger]

We also charge for each unit we type regardless of whether it is negative or positive. We have to manually enter this charge our BB computer system will not automatically charge the patient.

[adiescast]

We also charge per antigen typing regardless of the result.

[Karen Olsen]

We also charge per antigen typing regardless of the result and use CPT code 86903. For the antigen typing of the patient we use CPT code 86905 and when we use the patient's serum to screen units first to limit the number of antigen typings we use CPT code 86904. We bill these charges to the patient manually.

[kbadjie]

Thank you all for sharing your billing practices.