Bill Text: IN HB1071 | 2011 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Anatomic pathology services.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-16 - Effective 07/01/2011 [HB1071 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2011-HB1071-Engrossed.html
Citations Affected: IC 16-48.
Synopsis: Anatomic pathology services. Specifies requirements for
billing and claims related to anatomic pathology services.
Effective: July 1, 2011.
(SENATE SPONSORS _ MILLER, MISHLER)
January 5, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Health.
February 17, 2011, reported _ Do Pass.
March 29, 2011, read second time, amended, ordered engrossed.
March 30, 2011, engrossed. Read third time, passed. Yeas 96, nays 0.
March 31, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services.
April 14, 2011, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
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ARTICLE 48. OTHER HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND SERVICES
Chapter 1. Anatomic Pathology Services
Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "anatomic pathology service" means any of the following performed by a physician or under the supervision of a physician on a sample taken from a human body:
(1) Histopathology or surgical pathology, meaning the gross and microscopic examination and histologic processing of organ tissue.
(2) Cytopathology, meaning the microscopic examination of cells from the following:
(A) Fluids.
(B) Aspirates.
(C) Washings.
(D) Brushings.
(E) Smears.
(3) Hematology, meaning the microscopic evaluation of bone marrow aspirates and biopsies, and peripheral blood smears when the attending or treating physician or technologist requests that a blood smear be reviewed by a pathologist.
(4) Subcellular pathology and molecular pathology, meaning the assessment of a specimen for detection, localization, measurement, or analysis of protein or nucleic acid targets.
(5) Blood banking services performed by pathologists.
Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "physician" includes a physician group practice.
Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "referral laboratory" means a physician or clinical laboratory:
(1) to which a sample is sent by a referring laboratory; and
(2) by which an anatomic pathology service is performed;
for consultation or histologic processing.
Sec. 4. (a) As used in this chapter, "referring laboratory" means a clinical laboratory that sends a sample to a physician or another clinical laboratory for performance of an anatomic pathology service by the physician or other clinical laboratory for consultation or histologic processing.
(b) The term does not include a physician's office laboratory that does not perform the professional component of an anatomic pathology service.
Sec. 5. A health care provider or clinical laboratory that provides an anatomic pathology service for a patient in Indiana shall present a bill, claim, or other demand for payment for the service only to the following:
(1) The patient.
(2) The patient's insurer or other third party payer.
(3) The hospital, health clinic, public health clinic, or rural health clinic.
(4) A referring laboratory.
(5) A government agency or other agency or organization acting on behalf of the patient.
Sec. 6. Except for a health care provider at a referring laboratory that has been billed by a referral laboratory, a health care provider shall not solicit payment for an anatomic pathology service unless the service is rendered personally by the health care provider or under the health care provider's direct supervision in accordance with Section 353 of the federal Public Health Service
Act (42 U.S.C. 263a).
Sec. 7. A person is not required to reimburse a health care
provider or clinical laboratory for charges or claims submitted in
violation of this chapter.
Sec. 8. This chapter does not do the following:
(1) Require assignment of benefits for an anatomic pathology
service.
(2) Prohibit billing of a referring laboratory by a referral
laboratory.
Sec. 9. If a health care provider violates this chapter, the state
entity that has jurisdiction over licensing or certification of the
health care provider may revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew the
license or certification of the health care provider.
