The bill requires clinical laboratories and physicians that provide anatomic pathology services to submit claims for payment for pathology services only to the patient; the insurance carrier; the hospital or clinic that ordered the service, or the referring laboratory, unless the laboratory is from a physician's office or group practice that does not perform the professional component of the anatomic pathology service; or a governmental agency on behalf of the recipient of services.

Licensed health care practitioners are prohibited from charging for anatomic pathology services unless the services were personally delivered by the practitioner or under the direct supervision of the practitioner. Laboratories that refer to another physician or laboratory for consultation or histologic processing are exempt from the personal delivery and direct supervision requirement, unless the laboratory that makes the referral does not perform the professional component of the service.

The term "anatomic pathology services" is defined to include histopathology or surgical pathology, cytopathology, hematology, subcellular pathology or molecular pathology, and blood-banking services performed by pathologists.