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Path/Lab Coding:

Know Who Can, and Who Cannot, Bill for Lab Draws

Published on Fri Oct 16, 2026

Question: Our clinic laboratory draw station receives laboratory orders from an outside provider. The phlebotomist performs the lab draw, and the lab is sent to be processed at a different location. Who should we report as the billing provider for 36415: the clinic’s on-call provider (“doctor of the day”) or the physician listed on the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) [...]
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