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The what and why of diagnostic management teams

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January 2017—Michael Laposata, MD, PhD, has been speaking for years about the need for laboratory consultations and diagnostic management teams, and he will lead the first formal meeting Feb. 7–8 in Galveston, Tex., on what the teams are and how to implement them. Writer Ron Shinkman put a few questions to him about diagnostic management teams and pathology practice. Dr. Laposata is a professor in and chairman of the Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston. Here’s what he said.

Given the aging of the pathology workforce, a pending shortage, and squeezed reimbursement, how do you see smaller practices faring over the next decade or two? What kind of skills will they have to learn or deploy to succeed?

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