You don't bill clinical orders, for a number of reasons. The main issue is that one usually wants to bill the procedures and servivces that were actually performed, which, in the clinical workflow, might be very different from the ones that were ordered. For instance, the specialist performing a procedure might decide that a different procedure might be a better option for the patient, or discover something during the examination that requires immediate attention even though it was not mentioned in the order. Hence, one would usually have an additional step when the clinical order is marked as completed to select the services that were actually performed. These are normal IS-H services that can then be billed.
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