Re: [Histonet] Fatty Fixation

What exactly is wrong with the fatty specimens? If the nuclei look smudgy, with no nuclear detail, then it has not been fixed long enough. If the fat is still in the tissue and you cannot section it on a microtome, then the tissue has not had enough time during processing, especially length

[Histonet] RE: Billing ???

Hospital bills technical and pathologist bills technical. That's an interesting alternative though. I'm just an IT Analyst which means I know way more about billing than I want to but nowhere near enough to be a revenue cycle manager or even biller. I am interested in hearing from anyone that

[Histonet] OMICS

Beware of invitations to speak at an OMICS conference, check out this link for details http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/01/25/omics-predatory-meetings/ Patsy Ruegg, HT(ASCP)QIHC Ruegg IHC Consulting 40864 E. Arkansas Ave Bennett, CO 80102 H 303-644-4538 C 720-281-5406

Re: [Histonet] p16 on the Bond

We dilute the CINtec p16 RTU antibody (Ventana/Roche) "1:10" (15' primary antibody incubation) and use high pH retrieval (H2) for 10' on the Bond Max. Richard Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD Director, Histology & Immunopathology Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs Assistant Director, Anatomic

RE: [Histonet] Billing ???

Good Afternoon to All, At our hospital, for hospital inpatients and outpatients the Pathologist bill for their professional fee and the hospital bills the patients for the technical component. For non-patient specimens (patients seen at other offices and facilities), the Pathologist bills the p

RE: [Histonet] Billing ???

Hospital bills the technical and pathologists bill the professional. Tom McNemar, HT(ASCP) Histology Co-ordinator Licking Memorial Health Systems (740) 348-4163 (740) 348-4166 tmcne...@lmhealth.org www.LMHealth.org -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailt

RE: [Histonet] Billing ???

Hospital bills technical and pathologists bill professional Joyce Weems Pathology Manager 678-843-7376 Phone 678-843-7831 Fax joyce.we...@emoryhealthcare.org www.saintjosephsatlanta.org 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30342 This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Sai

[Histonet] p16 on the Bond

I am having trouble posting to the histonet for some reason. I am looking for condition and incubation times for p16 on the Bond. Our new pathologist says our p16 looks overstained to him and not at all what he is accustomed to seeing and I am trying to get the staining more to his liking, w

RE: [Histonet] Billing ???

At our institution the hospital bills the technical and the pathologist bills the professional.   Martha Ward, MT (ASCP) QIHC Manager Molecular Diagnostics Lab Medical Center Boulevard  \  Winston-Salem, NC 27157 p 336.716.2109  \  f 336.716.5890   mw...@wakehealth.edu       -Original Me

[Histonet] Billing ???

Happy Friday This is a question to those who work at a hospital that have contracted pathologists. Does your hospital bill the technical component and the pathologist bill the profession component or does the pathologist bill everything and pay the hospital for technical component? Joe Maslank

[Histonet] NonSpecific Staining Throughout Frozen Tissue

I am using an anti-Sox9 rabbit polyclonal antibody to stain frozen OCT-embedded porcine heart valve tissue, but am getting non-specific staining throughout my sections. I do not think it is something to do directly with the primary antibody because I have been getting this nonspecific staining even

[Histonet] CMV positive wet tissue

Hello, I am in the process of validating CMV ISH on the BOND instrument from Leica for our Histology lab. Currently all of the tissue that we have to use in the validation is negative for CMV and was processed by the VIP 5 processor. Moving forward, the lab we will be using the Peloris proc

[Histonet] New FT Histology Position

PGXL Laboratories, located in Louisville, KY, is seeking a HT (ASCP) or HTL (ASCP) or equivalent for its newly created histology laboratory. This is a unique opportunity for a highly motivated, service oriented individual. The ideal candidate has a minimum of one year experience under the s