[Histonet] Peripheral Blood Smears

[Mike Pence]

Show your Pathologist that by moving the peripheral smears back to
Hematology, they will be able to correlate the smear with the rest of
the patients blood work.  Have your Lab LIS person work with Hematology
and build a template to attach the smear report to the rest of the
patients blood work. The reason your Pathologist want/have this in
histology is because the dictate the smear and the only area that has
dictation in the lab is Histology. It is a mind set they have.

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From: Nails, Felton [mailto:flnails <@t> texaschildrens.org] 
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:57 AM
To: Mike Pence; DKBoyd <@t> chs.net; histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Peripheral Blood Smears


I have been fighting this battle for years and still have not been
successful. 

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Pence
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Subject: RE: [Histonet] Peripheral Blood Smears

You're a Histology Dept.! Get the peripheral smears out of your dept.
Peripheral smears belong in Hematology. Make then make something work.
This is what I did. Mike

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Subject: [Histonet] Peripheral Blood Smears


We have had this discussion many times in our institute and would like
some outside thoughts.  Is there a charge/cpt code that is acceptable
for 
the technical aspect of a peripheral smear?   Hematology doesn't stain
our
slides.  They make the smear and we accession, stain and coverslip, etc.

But the pathologist is the only one actually interpreting the smear.
Thanks.

Debbie M. Boyd, HT(ASCP) l Chief Histologist l Southside Regional
Medical Center I 200 Medical Park Boulevard l Petersburg, Va.  23805 l
T: 804-765-5050 l
F: 
804-765-5582 l dkboyd <@t> chs.net





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