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Specimen Collections Guidelines
- Fluids, aspirates, joint aspiration
(e.g.: gout, digital mucous cyst):
Place in dry urine container or red-top tube. - Fungal Nails, Distal Clip:
Submit dry in nail bag. - Nailbed biopsy for Melanoma:
Fix in formalin - Nailbed biopsy for Pyogenic Granuloma:
Fix in formalin
- Nerve Fiber Density:
2 (2mm or 3mm) punch biopsies fix in formalin. Specimen needs to arrive in lab within 48 hours. - Specimens for direct immunofluorescence studies: Submit in Michel's fixative
- All other skin specimens
(e.g.: verruca, R/O carcinoma, excision, punch biopsy, wound debridement, ulcer biopsy, hammertoes, bunions, foreign body with tissue):
Fix in formalin
Participating Insurance
- 1199 National Benefit Fund
- AARP
- Agewell
- Alicare
- Americas Choice Provider Network (ACPN)
- APWU
- CHAMPVA
- Choice Care
- Coventry
- Cigna
- Emblem Health
- Fidelis Care
- First Health Network
- GEHA
- GHI Network
- Galaxy Health Network
- Guardian
- Health First Medicare
- Health Link
- Health Spring
- Humana
- Independent Health
- Island Group Administration
- Magnacare
- Managed Strategies PPO
- MCS Patient Centered Healthcare Network
- Medicare and ANY Medicare Supplements
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- Metroplus
- Multiplan
- MVP
- NALC
- No Fault
- NYSHIP/The Empire Plan/NY Gov
- One Health
- Oscar—NY only
- Oxford Network
- Perfect Health
- PHCS
- POMCO
- Railroad Medicare
- Tricare
- Sunshine State- CHP
- US Family Health Plan
- Univera
- United Healthcare
- United Payors & United Providers
- Wellcare Medicare Workman’s Compensation
Research Slide Pricing
- Gross, process, embed, sectioning and staining of 1 H&E
- Standard slide/specimen
$50.00/slide - Large slide/specimen
$75.00/slide - Additional H&E
$10.00/slide - 1 unstained slide for special stain or IHC use
$6.00/slide - Routine special stains, i.e., Trichrome, Elastic
$35.00/slide - Silver stains, i.e., Fontana, Dieterle
$40.00/slide - Decalcification of specimen
$10.00/each
- Diagnostic evaluation by, or with Dr. Steve McClain
(includes digital imaging*)
$325.00/hour
- Slide box (100 slide capacity)
$15.00/each - Slide box (50 slide capacity)
$7.50/each
*Digital images to be delivered by secure internet service.
All mailing and shipping fees will be invoiced
