[Histonet] Devasting news on 88305TC component--Where the $18came from

[Pratt, Caroline]

Anyone who is willing to share how they calculate their cost per slide,
can you please email it to Caroline.pratt <@t> uphs.upenn.edu?  Thanks!

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$18came from

Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 12:35 PM
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$18 came from

The $18.00 figure came from an article published in Archives of
Pathology and Lab Medicine: 

Pathology Economic Model Tool
A Novel Approach to Workflow and Budget Cost Analysis in an Anatomic
Pathology Laboratory
David Muirhead, BSc; Patricia Aoun, MD, MPH; Michael Powell, MS, FASHP;
Flemming Juncker, MBA; Jens Mollerup, MSc, PhD


(Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2010;134:1164-1169)

Thanks to Joe Plandowski of IOL for providing me with the reference.

Lester J. Raff, MD
Medical Director
UroPartners Laboratory
2225 Enterprise Dr. Suite 2511
Westchester, Il 60154
Tel 708.486.0076
Fax 708.492.0203
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[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Webster,
Thomas S.
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 3:01 PM
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Subject: [Histonet] Devasting news on 88305TC component

I wish there was a way to put a positive spin on this but  I can't think
of any. We can only hope it kills off client billing somehow.

Whomever the "stakeholder" was that told CMS a typical 88305 costs 18
bucks, I'd love to know how he/she came up with that number. It's
insultingly low.

http://www.acla.com/sites/default/files/ACLA%20comments%202012%20PFS%20p
roposed%20rule%208-30-11_3.pdf

I believe whoever it was had the goal to stop the proliferation of POLs.
Wouldn't surprise me if they worked for a large national lab that had
lost a lot of business to POLs.



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