Martha, sorry, I have been on vacation and just did return.

Please go to our WEB site at http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/schools/ms/departments/pathology/pathist/dx_home.html

I am checking to see if our charges are in our web site and if not, we are placing them in there, but here they are for they time being.

For a biopsy to be processed STAT the requisition form must be labeled STAT.  Remember that the cut off time for STATS is 11:00am. Specimens that arrive before 2pm will have 24 hour turn around time. Specimens that arrive after 2pm will have a 48 hour turn around time.

 

Immunofluorescent (IF);  High Resolution Light Microscopy (HRLM);  Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)

Level IV and Level V HRLM only

CPT Code 88349 (Routine) $400.00

CPT Code 88349 (STAT) $500.00

CPT Code 88349 (Unsatisfactory) $160.00

CPT Code 88346 (Routine) Each antibody is $50.00

Performed are: IgG, IgM, IgA, C3, C1q, (C4d for transplants on request), Fibrinogen, Kappa and Lambda.

CPT Code 88346 (Unsatisfactory) $50.00

CPT Code 88348 (Routine) $800.00 Price includes HRLM, TEM and immunofluorescent studies.

CPT Code 88348 (STAT )$1000.00

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Martha Ward [mailto:mward@wfubmc.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:38 AM
To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] Renal biopsy charges/procedures