![]() Taxonomy Description: a pathologist deals with the causes and nature of disease and contributes to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment through knowledge gained by the laboratory application of the biologic, chemical and physical sciences. Taxonomy Description: a pathologist who specializes in the diagnosis of immunologic diseases. This entails the examination and interpretation of specially prepared tissue sections, cellular scrapings, and smears of skin lesions by means of light microscopy, electron microscopy, and fluorescence microscopy. ![]() Taxonomy Description: a dermatopathologist is an expert in diagnosing and monitoring diseases of the skin including infectious, immunologic, degenerative, and neoplastic diseases. He/she is a consultant to all medical specialists. However, the cytopathologist's expertise is applied to the diagnosis of cells from all systems and areas of the body. A major aspect of a cytopathologist's practice is the interpretation of Papanicolaou-stained smears of cells from the female reproductive systems, the Pap test. Taxonomy Description: a cytopathologist is an anatomic pathologist trained in the diagnosis of human disease by means of the study of cells obtained from body secretions and fluids, by scraping, washing, or sponging the surface of a lesion, or by the aspiration of a tumor mass or body organ with a fine needle. *Please verify directly with this provider to make sure your insurance plan is currently accepted. The NPI profile data indicates this provider might be enrolled and accepting health plans from the following insurance companies or healthcare programs: A pathologist uses information gathered from the microscopic examination of tissue specimens, cells and body fluids, and from clinical laboratory tests on body fluids and secretions for the diagnosis, exclusion and monitoring of disease. Taxonomy CodeĪ pathologist deals with the causes and nature of disease and contributes to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment through knowledge gained by the laboratory application of the biologic, chemical and physical sciences. For individual NPIs the license data is associated to the taxonomy code. ![]() There could be only one primary taxonomy code per NPI record. The primary taxonomy code defines the provider type, classification, and specialization.
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