The patient has already paid you to make their diagnosis. If you pathologist wants a colleagues opinion, you eat the charge. After all, you can't justify billing the patient for your own work if you can't provide the answer they need. 
if the patient requests a second opinion, they should be billed.





Vinnie Della Speranza
Manager for Anatomic Pathology Services
Medical University of South Carolina
165 Ashley Avenue
Suite 309
Charleston, SC  29425
ph:  (843) 792-6353
fax: (843) 792-8974
email: Dellav@musc.edu

>>> "MacDonald, Jennifer" <jmacdonald@sach.org> 02/22/00 02:16PM >>>
What is the industry standard for who pays when a pathologist refers slides
to another laboratory for consultation before making a diagnosis?  Is the
patient responsible for the charges or is the pathologist?


Jennifer MacDonald
San Antonio Community Hospital
Upland, CA  91786
(909) 985-2811 ext. 4148
jmacdonald@sach.org