We had one of our clients looking into this testing. The company does a hard sell. What they neglect to tell you is the insurance companies may not cover this testing leaving the patient with a huge bill sometimes $700 to $800. Known Error will tell you it is a Medicare approved test what they don't tell you is the patient will almost always end up with some bill, also the other HMO do not have approval leaving the patient with the full bill. Our client declined to use this system after further investigation form our lab. The amount of work evolved in processing and hands on specimen time is huge with no reimbursement to the lab itself. Cindy
Cindy Pyse, CLT, HT (ASCP) Laboratory Manager X-Cell Laboratories 716-250-9235 etx. 232 e-mail cp...@x-celllab.com -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Lester Raff MD Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:25 AM To: Richard Cartun; Histonet Subject: RE: [Histonet] "know error system" - prostate biopsies We do not! Lester J. Raff, MD Medical Director UroPartners Laboratory 2225 Enterprise Dr. Suite 2511 Westchester, Il 60154 Tel 708.486.0076 Fax 708.492.0203 -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Cartun Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 8:21 AM To: Histonet Subject: [Histonet] "know error system" - prostate biopsies I am curious how many of you working in hospital or non-hospital Anatomic Pathology labs are using the "know error system" for prostate biopsy/patient DNA confirmation? Thank you. Richard Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD Director, Histology & Immunopathology Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology Hartford Hospital 80 Seymour Street Hartford, CT 06102 (860) 545-1596 Office (860) 545-2204 Fax _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet