Texas practices choose Zotec for billing services

Midland Pathologists and DX of Midland, Texas, have selected Zotec Partners, a provider of medical billing services and licensed software, as their billing services provider.

Midland Pathologists is a group of board-certified pathologists who provide anatomic and clinical pathology services, and DX includes a histology laboratory and a cytology laboratory. Both practices are attached to Midland Memorial Hospital.

The pathologist group will begin using Zotec’s services in 2008.

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