An interpretation furnished by a separate practice

Read an original fictional chart, identify the supported facts, and explain your coding workflow.

Chart gym · Original fictional record

Service date: 2026-09-09 · Medicare radiology professional service

Use your code books and write your reasoning before opening the walkthrough. This exercise contains no real patient information.

Study and indication

A hospital produces a diagnostic chest study for a fictional adult with a persistent cough. Hospital staff and equipment furnish the image acquisition.

Radiologist report

A radiologist from a separate practice personally interprets the study and signs a report documenting the findings and impression. The report states no acute focal pulmonary process in this synthetic record.

Resources furnished

The radiology practice furnished the interpretation and report. It did not furnish the hospital’s staff, equipment or acquisition service, and the hospital’s technical resources are not billed by that practice.

Reporting assumption

The selected current entry is stipulated to permit component reporting. This exercise concerns the radiologist’s professional claim, not the hospital facility claim or a treating clinician’s review of the report.

Your coding worksheet

Identify which party furnished each part.
Distinguish interpretation with a report from ordinary result review.
Select the supported component pathway in the authorized reference.
Explain why a global claim by this practice is not supported by the stated work.

In your notebook, record the supported facts, your index route, the instructions you checked, and any missing detail that limits your answer.

Compare with the worked explanation

The hospital supplied technical resources; the separate practice supplied interpretation and a signed report.
That is different from merely reading another clinician’s completed report.
Under the supplied component-eligible assumption, investigate professional-component reporting for the radiologist.
This practice’s record does not support its furnishing the technical portion or the combined global test.

Reference sections: 20.1–20.2.1;100.1

Practice the linked chart questions