[Histonet] G0461 code for prostate biopsies

I am told that in 2015 there are no longer G codes for medicare patient billing of IHC stains. That is great. However the gentleman I talked to also said that now for medicare patients there is only one G code for prostate biopsies. G0461 to be used no matter how many of the biopsies procure

[Histonet] RE: G0461 code for prostate biopsies

Apparently the code is G0416 not G0461. Sorry Jim Vickroy Histology Manager Springfield Clinic, Main Campus, East Building 1025 South 6th Street Springfield, Illinois 62703 Office: 217-528-7541, Ext. 15121 Email: jvick...@springfieldclinic.com From: Vic

[Histonet] GMS control

Thank you to all who volunteered ideas and control blocks. Of course, the control must be of human origin, so they are digging through their files to find a nice fungusy patient tissue for me. Darn those CAP regulations, they take all the fun out of it. I still want to try an orange or Slim Jim

Re: [Histonet] Fungus control

I use the same, an orange peel, and a small piece of colon (or other suitable tissue) for contrast. Wanda K. Simons, HT (ASCP) Athens Gastroenterology Association 3320 Old Jefferson Road, Bldg.400 Athens, GA 30607 706.613.1625 www.histosearch.com/gsh/ > ---Original Message--- > From

[Histonet] RE: Bone marrow Charges

In our Histology Lab, we charge: 88305 X2 for Gross and Micro on both clot and core bx 88311 for Decalcification of the bone core bx 88313 X2 for the Iron Stain and Retic Terri L. Braud, HT(ASCP) Anatomic Pathology Supervisor Holy Redeemer Hospital Laboratory 1648 Huntingdon Pike Meadowbrook, PA 1

[Histonet] Fungus control

We used an orange. Leave it in a brown bag until it grows fungus. Then you can cut strips of the peel and process just like your regular tissue. You get all the hyphae nicely defined in the peel. The counterstain doesn't really show, though, since it is plant cells. Lacie Algeo, HTL (ASCP)

[Histonet] preparing a 20% polyvinyl alcohol solution

Dear Histonet, I am making a 20% PVA solution for cryo embedding murine bones, following John Tarpley's recipe found in his JOH article, March 2003. He mentions no problems in making it, but after 3 days on the stir plate, it still has not gone into solution. The PVA settles very quickly, even