I am with Alberta Precision Lab services and we frequently observe that a practitioner charges for their services to the patients in the setting of when uninsured services are provided but not for any related cost for provide diagnostic testing they ordered. Can the revised standard give clarification about how any diagnostic tests ordered as part of an uninsured visit, during which the practitioner charges for their services, should be covered? E.g. should the practitioner charge for those and then pay DI or APL? At least clarity that also any diagnostic test should be charged to the patient under the same terms would be helpful, since there is no reliable way for APL to know in every case that a practitioner orders lab test during an uninsured or medically no necessary visits/patient encounter.
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