Frequently Asked Practice Management Questions

Based on established CAP policy, Practice Management makes no recommendation relative to specific charges. We recommend that you refer to the Medicare fee schedule and your third-party payers’ contract for the appropriate code and corresponding reimbursement.

Please refer to the handout from a previous practice management roundtable presentation titled Performing Meaningful OPPE and FPPE at https://www.cap.org/calendar/w.... You can also watch the session online at https://attendee.gotowebinar.c....

The technical component represents the cost of performing the test (such as equipment and facility costs, supplies, non-physician work, and employee salaries). In pathology/histology terms that means embedding, sectioning, staining, tissue processing, slides, personnel working in histology, as well as report construction, dissemination and storage, and other administrative labor are considered part of the technical component. [Reference: Pathology Practice Management, ed. Hassell, Lewis, Talbert, Michael and Pine-Wood, Jane, 2016.]