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What additional value is there to the patient to do pathology services digitally? If the answer is "none". why should the payor pay more for these services?Unless the reimbursement is significantly higher to account for the extra labor and costs associated with digitizing and maintaining the significant amount of data necessary for this endeavor, then it's just a cute gimmick as far as I'm concerned. And I define significant as not an extra $2 to the technical.
I mean... they could have just changed the CPT language for existing microscopy to include reviews of digital images and processing TC components to include digital components of processing. But creating new codes may not yield the desired effect.Wow....CAP advocacy at work, huh?