I have a question for anyone out there who could help. We are a regional hospital with a Nursing home & assisted living attached to the facility. The nursing home/assited living are owned and operated by one of the 3 owners of the hospital, but are a completely seperate entity (billing, staff, charting, etc) has nothing to do with the hospital.
We currently have contracted with them to do their PICC placements and difficult IV starts. PICC placement will be done at the hospital in our area where we do all outpt PICC starts. So billing, doing, etc of PICCs is not the issue.
My question comes from peripheral IV starts.
Does anyone know what a reasonable charge for that is? We are looking at going to them & using their supplies, and billing the facility a "professional" fee. I am trying to get a sense of what that fee may be.
What if u use the ultrasound?
I got word that the CRNA group at the hospital can charge about $65 when they are asked to start (of course that gets wrapped up in the DRG).
THOUGHTS? Any info would be helpful.
THanks
I am a little confused by what you are actually looking for. Are you an outside company that provides these services to these facilities? If so, are you talking about the fee that your company bills to the facility? Or are you talking about the amount of money that the facility bills to the payer, either Medicare, insurance, etc? Lynn
Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RN, NPD-BC, CRNI
Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc.
PO Box 10
Milner, GA 30257
Website http://www.hadawayassociates.com
Office Phone 770-358-7861
we are employees of the hospital & would be sent by the hospital down the several hallways to the nursing home to start a peripheral IV that their staff cannot get.
So we are as a facility looking to figure out a "contract" charge that we could send the nursing home to re-imburse for our time/skill as hospital staff.
We would be acting like an agency to the nursing home, but would be billed out thru the hospital to them.
Hope that makes sense
Heather Berndt RN, BSN, CEN, CRNI
Yes, your second explanation makes sense, but this is a different twist to the usual questions about fees. Don't think I have any answers for you but I am sure someone else on this group will. Lynn
Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RN, NPD-BC, CRNI
Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc.
PO Box 10
Milner, GA 30257
Website http://www.hadawayassociates.com
Office Phone 770-358-7861