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Agendia, Inc. is committed to providing quality testing for patients and their treating physicians by offering timely results, reliable customer service, and adhering to responsible billing practices. As a part of Agendia’s regulatory policy, we follow all Federal & State requirements, based on applicable rules and regulations as it relates to Clinical Laboratory services.
The “14 Day Rule” is a regulation set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that generally requires laboratories, including Agendia, to bill a hospital or hospital-owned facility for certain clinical and pathology laboratory services and the technical component of pathology services provided to Medicare patients when services are ordered less than 14 days after an inpatient discharge.
In general, the date of service (DOS) for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests is the date of specimen collection unless the physician orders the test at least 14 days following the patient’s discharge from the hospital. In the latter situation, the DOS is the date the test is performed, instead of the date of specimen collection.
Hospitals and hospital-owned facilities where the patient’s specimen was collected for a hospital inpatient encounter.
Below is an outline of the scenarios under which the Medicare date of service rules will apply to Agendia’s tests. The decision to submit an order for testing should be guided by the clinical judgment of the ordering physician and should not be based on the application of any billing rules.
Status at Specimen Collection
Outpatient
Nonpatient
Inpatient; ordered >14 days after date of discharge
Inpatient; ordered >14 days after date of discharge
Medicare Billing
Agendia, Inc. bills Medicare
Agendia, Inc. bills Hospital