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Alerts

  • Updates on testing cattle and cats for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)
  • Due to a reagent shortage, total bilirubin will be temporarily unavailable on the small animal, large animal, and donkey chemistry panels (SAP, LAP, DNKYP). 

Surgical Biopsy Changes

Starting June 1st, the Anatomic Pathology Surgical Service is offering two options for biopsy reports:

Standard and Diagnosis-Only

The Diagnosis-Only report is offered at the current biopsy price of $66.50, while the price for the Standard report is $80. Practitioners are encouraged to consider the Diagnosis-Only option for routine cutaneous and subcutaneous masses, as well as oral, nasal, and needle biopsies.

The Standard report is equivalent to the current biopsy report and includes a histologic diagnosis, comments and a complete histologic description of submitted samples including assessment of surgical margins (when applicable).

The Diagnosis-Only report is shorter and includes a histologic diagnosis and a brief comment including assessment of surgical margins (when applicable), but does not include a histologic description of the submitted sample. 

The Diagnosis-Only option is not available for complex cases such as whole organs, amputations, surgical margin revisions, samples that require decalcification, and specialty consultations (liver or dermatopathology).

Note: The Dermatopathology consult fee increased to $30.00.