As long as you have someone who is willing to read it!
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From: Histonet Alias [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:12 PM
To: Paula Pierce
Cc: Mike Pence; Histonet
Subject: Re: [Histonet] Outside Lab
Get used to this sort of thing. It is happening in urology and
derm practices. You can not blame them for keeping it in-house. They are
making a profit on it so why not do it yourself?
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Paula Pierce
<[email protected]> wrote:
The pathologists are probably going to the urology group
to read because CLIA certification is LOCATION specific. The urology
group may already have CLIA cert. and is splitting the interpretation
charges with the pathologist. By adding its own lab, they will be able
to capture both tech and interp charges.
________________________________
From: Mike Pence <[email protected]>
To: Bernice Frederick <[email protected]>;
jstaruk <[email protected]>; "Senn, Amy R" <[email protected]>;
[email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 10:50:49 AM
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Outside Lab
Why does the hospital pathologist go to the Urology to
read and sign out
the cases?
So if I am understanding this correctly, your hospital
is right now
getting the tech part of the specimen for processing. Is
your
pathologist part of the hospital or are they their own
group? The
urology group will bill for their own tech part and make
money from that
part of the service which they are not currently making
revenue from. I
would assume that your pathologist are their own group
and they don't
care who makes the tech part?
This is just business and you will have to make your
services and prices
competitive enough to make it not profitable for the
urology group.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Bernice
Frederick
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:11 AM
To: 'jstaruk'; 'Senn, Amy R';
[email protected]
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Outside Lab
Is the histo lab in the urology office CAP certified?
Bernice
Bernice Frederick HTL (ASCP)
Northwestern University
Pathology Core Facility
ECOGPCO-RL
710 N Fairbanks Court
Olson 8-421
Chicago,IL 60611
312-503-3723
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of jstaruk
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:51 AM
To: 'Senn, Amy R'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Outside Lab
The first question on everybody's mind is "How much are
you charging
them"?
Jim
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www.nehorselabs.com
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Senn,
Amy R
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Histonet] Outside Lab
Hi histonetters,
Hope everyone is having a good week so far...
Our hospital receives specimens from a Urology group on
a daily basis.
Our PA grosses the specimens here; us histotechs work
our magic, and the
hospital pathologists take the slides directly to the
Urology office to
read them and sign them out. If there are any special
stains needed, we
do them here in the hospital.
We are being told that the Urology group is now opening
its own
histology lab because it's more cost effective.
Unless it's too early in the morning for us all to
function, us
histotechs can't figure out where they're saving money.
We are being
told that the Urology office (or any outside dr's office
that has its
own histo lab) can bill Medicare (or any insurance co.)
differently,
thereby making more money for the practice itself.
Does anyone have any input on this? One of our
pathologists is telling
the Urology group NOT to do this because Medicare may
change it's
regulations again & need an 'established' lab to
complete the work,
instead of an 'up & coming' laboratory, so he's also
against the Urology
group setting up it's own lab.
Thanks for everyone's 0.02.
Have a great day!!!
Amy Senn
Histotech, Histology Laboratory
Camp Hill, PA 17011
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