Pathology Practice Management

The authors discuss useful tools and tricks of the trade in pathology practice management. In-depth chapters on coding and billing by nationally known consultant Dennis Padget will prepare you to evaluate coding and billing practices. Noted law experts Jane Pine Wood and Amelia Larsen, attorneys at McDonald Hopkins, highlight key issues in employment, insurance, and hospital contracts and provide examples of how to deal with tricky issues. Sections on human resources and group dynamics take on the vexing issues that people bring to work. Finally, the authors identify current trends and reason how these might play out.

In providing a broad overview of pathology practice management, each chapter employs a didactic framework, including one or more scenarios to illustrate challenges encountered by the writers. This case-based approach facilitates interactive learning and will thus be particularly useful to pathology training programs.

Whatever your stage in the field—from resident to senior pathologist, including those in leadership roles—Pathology Practice Management: A Case-Based Guide is essential reading.

• CPT coding
• Financial management
• HR management
• Practice models
• Risk management
• Succession planning

• Anatomic Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA

  Lewis A. Hassell

• Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA

  Michael L. Talbert

• McDonald Hopkins LLC, Dennis, USA

  Jane Pine Wood

Michael L. Talbert, M.D.
Lloyd E. Rader Professor and Chairman

Department of Pathology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Oklahoma City, OK
USA

Lewis A. Hassell, M.D.
Professorship of Excellence in Anatomic Pathology

Professor and Director of Anatomic Pathology

Department of Pathology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, OK
USA

Jane Pine Wood, J.D.
McDonald- Hopkins
Dennis, MA
USA

Policies and ethics