Physician Office Lab rules

[pathstudent]

Has anyone heard of a physician office lab (POL) that takes specimens in from other non-affiliated referring physicians? Basically, can a physician office lab that is owned by a large GI group receive specimens from a GI doc that is not part of the group and bill for it under the large GI group's tax ID? In other words can a POL act as an independent clinical lab or a reference lab and do work that originates outside it's group?

Intuitively one would think that if you are designated as a POL by CLIA that you work should be limited to your own group's work. One could also make the argument that you are not violating any Stark laws granted the referring lab or provider does not have a financial interest in your group (or is not getting a kickback). I am having trouble finding an answer to this. What do you think?

YOU ALL NEED TO REALIZE THAT WHEN IT COMES TO DERM, GI, AND GU PATHOLOGY THAT WE ARE BOTTOM FEEDERS. NO ONE GIVES A CRAP ABOUT US AND THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE. SUBSPECIALTY SURGEONS ANS PROCEDURALISTS WILL ALWAYS RULE THE ROOST.

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[Dave CX]

YOU ALL NEED TO REALIZE THAT WHEN IT COMES TO DERM, GI, AND GU PATHOLOGY THAT WE ARE BOTTOM FEEDERS. NO ONE GIVES A CRAP ABOUT US AND THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE. SUBSPECIALTY SURGEONS ANS PROCEDURALISTS WILL ALWAYS RULE THE ROOST.

Nobody gives a crap about ANY pathologist. So what?
Sturgeon are bottom feeders too and they get enormous and live more than 100 years.

 

[WEBB PINKERTON]

We are stuck at the back of the human centipede.

 

[octopusprime]

Nobody gives a crap about ANY pathologist. So what?
Sturgeon are bottom feeders too and they get enormous and live more than 100 years.

And their caviar is great.

 

[y2k_free_radical]

We are stuck at the back of the human centipede.

Sorta like cestodes

 

[Sunny B]

We are looking more and more for team players as we continue to find great residents. In medicine you get the opportunity to be part of the team. In our residency programs, the team leaders are pathologists!

 

[y2k_free_radical]

We are looking more and more for team players as we continue to find great residents. In medicine you get the opportunity to be part of the team. In our residency programs, the team leaders are pathologists!

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[pathstudent]

Nobody gives a crap about ANY pathologist. So what?
Sturgeon are bottom feeders too and they get enormous and live more than 100 years.

No. Surgeons move the needle. If they don’t like how they are being treated at one hospital they can move to another

 

[Unty]

He meant sTurgeon. Not surgeon.