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For all those people interested in going into Hemepath, as of the first of the year, flow cytometry compensation from medicare will drop over 70%.
This is a economic disaster for hemepath where you made up for the fact that bone marrow exams tooks far longer than smaller specimens by doing less and making more money on the flow. I would go so far as to say this will destroy hemepath as field in pathology and Im not alone in this. This year hemepath jobs were plentiful but I doubt that trend will continue for very long.
To put this in perspective, if you did primarily hemepath and you made $200,000 this year, next year you will make $80,000-100,000 working just as hard.
Aint democracy grand? A pencil-pusher can destroy an entire subspeciality with a single document he probably spent 30 min drafting.
This is a economic disaster for hemepath where you made up for the fact that bone marrow exams tooks far longer than smaller specimens by doing less and making more money on the flow. I would go so far as to say this will destroy hemepath as field in pathology and Im not alone in this. This year hemepath jobs were plentiful but I doubt that trend will continue for very long.
To put this in perspective, if you did primarily hemepath and you made $200,000 this year, next year you will make $80,000-100,000 working just as hard.
Aint democracy grand? A pencil-pusher can destroy an entire subspeciality with a single document he probably spent 30 min drafting.