tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 7

Diagnostic Tests: Your Equipment, Their Payment - How to Get Paid for Tests in SNFs

SNFs stiff physicians on technical-component reimbursementFrustrated by skilled nursing facility payments for tests? You're not alone.A "good chunk" of the reimbursement for diagnostic tests in SNFs goes to the SNF instead of the physician, says Quin Buechner with ProActive Consultants in Cumberland, Wis. For example, you bring in a portable x-ray to a skilled nursing facility. The reimbursement for the technical component of the X-ray tests goes to the SNF, not you. Since the SNF receives a per-diem rate for the patient's care, it's hard for it to carve out a payment that covers the test. The answer...

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