[Histonet] Triple stain charge

[Richard Cartun]

We have an extremely busy urology service here at Hartford Hospital.  I have always found it interesting that we rarely do anything more than a high molecular weight cytokeratin (clone 34BetaE12) for documenting the presence of prostatic adenocarcinoma (when needed).  Yes, we will do a P504S occasionally (along with HMW-CK), but that's it.

Richard

Richard W. Cartun, Ph.D.
Director, Immunopathology & Histology
Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology
Hartford Hospital
80 Seymour Street
Hartford, CT  06102
(860) 545-1596
(860) 545-0174 Fax

>>> "Orr, Rebecca" <ROrr <@t> enh.org> 04/04/08 4:50 PM >>>

Hi Mary,
I'll send you the correspondence I have (it's a few years old) directly
from CAP.
It concurs with the other response you rec'd on the subject.  You can
charge for all 3 as long as the Doc makes comment on each antibody
expression.

Becky Orr CLA,HT(ASCP)QIHC
Anatomic Pathology
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
847-570-2771
 

-----Original Message-----
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Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:44:06 -0400
From: "Mary McCoy" <MMcCOY <@t> lakelandregional.org>
Subject: [Histonet] PIN-4
To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu 
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We have recently started doing PIN-4 triple stain. How do folks charge
for double/triple staining on the same slide? Can you charge for each
antigen?

Mary McCoy HTL(ASCP)
Supervisor of Pathology Services
Lakeland Regional Health System
St. Joseph MI 49098
(269) 982-4891
mmccoy <@t> lakelandregional.org 

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