Guest guest Posted March 2, 2006 Report Share Posted March 2, 2006 Our patients typically end up in a private room only because this is the only availability in the hospital at the time. If this question comes up we call our rooming department and they can tell us if this is the case or if the patient requested a private room. We seldom get private room requests from patients, but it does happen. Debbie Mast Supervisor, Senior Transplant Financial Coordinator Member, TFCA Heart Failure, Heart, Lung, Heart/Lung, Liver, Kidney, Pancreas, Intestinal Transplant Programs Phone: Fax: Re: PRIVATE ROOMS Hi all, As part of our registration process we have a charge indicator that the registar has to complete. One choice is physician ordered private room. This information goes on the claim and seems to work. We get a lot of other questions from Blx but they don't question why a tx pt needs a private room. Hope this helps. Toni Wheeler Transplant Financial Coordinator Medical University of Ohio twheeler@... Phone Fax >>> EwansS@... 3/2/2006 11:21 AM >>> Hello, Periodically our billing department receives a request for why a patient required a private room post-TX. I've learned that in the past, they have faxed over huge medical records, letters from doctors, etc. This takes an enormous amount of time to track down doc's, records so forth. The bottom line is that immunosupressed patients are required to have a private room. I'm wondering how others deal with this? It seems it's only Blue Cross and not for everyone of their patients. I am planning on including this as part of my auth request. thanks F. Ewans Financial Coordinator Transplant Services UMASS Memorial Medical Center office fax The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privilege material. Any review, transmission, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this is error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. <html><body><i>The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.</i></body></html> On June 8, 2005, the Medical College of Ohio's name changed to the Medical University of Ohio. Please note that any contacts stored in your personal address book with the extension of mco.edu should now be changed to meduohio.edu to avoid any interruptions in email delivery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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