I was just about to pose the same question, except my problem is fees.  I'm
going crazy trying to establish a set fee for immuno staining.  Some
antibodies are one step, no pre-treatment while others require MOM (mouse on
mouse) pre-treatment, heat, over night incubations, etc.  I've had some
investigators send me antibodies they know little to nothing about and ask
me to "see if I can get it to work"!   I'm curious to find out how others
charge for immunos.

Thanks

Jim
____________________________
James E. Staruk, HT(ASCP)
Mass Histology Service
http://www.masshistology.com



----- Original Message -----
From: Patricia Bourne <p_bourne_14526@yahoo.com>
To: Weems, Joyce <JWEEMS@sjha.org>
Cc: <histonet@pathology.swmed.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: Workload/Productivity


> That is a very good question.  I have been trying to
> figure that out for the last six months.  The old CAP
> scored Immunocytochemistry as 13 minutes per slide.
> That was before all the pretreatments.  And that was
> manually.  Cutting blocks for the first cut was 3.5
> minutes with each additional cut at 2.0.  I have
> others if anyone is interested.  I know that medicaid
> and medicare recently just adjusted the technical
> componet but I am not sure what RU relate to.  Anyone
> have any ideas.....?  TTFN
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get Yahoo! Mail n Free email you can access from anywhere!
> http://mail.yahoo.com/
>
>