What about a dermatologist? An appointment has a set fee. If you need treatment for something out of the ordinary, they give you options and prices. Then, you get to decide on how you proceed.
Seems pretty simple.
Seems pretty simple.
Then I, as the pathologist, provide some hedgy answer that's not in the textbook, because the patient's disease didn't read the textbook. And we have to jam that all into CPT codes, SNOMED codes, LOINC codes, ICD9 and ICD10 codes, complete with conversions between major and minor releases of those code lists, etc, etc.