Stanford Health Care Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Laboratories

What Stanford Health Care Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Laboratories does

Stanford Health Care Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Laboratories is the integrated clinical laboratory division of Stanford Health Care, a nonprofit academic medical center affiliated with Stanford University School of Medicine. The organization delivers comprehensive anatomic pathology, clinical pathology, molecular pathology and clinical genomics, transfusion medicine, and community blood banking services across a hub at 300 Pasteur Drive in Stanford and multiple satellite locations in Palo Alto, Emeryville, South Bay, Castro Valley, and Pleasanton. It performs over 12 million clinical laboratory tests and evaluates more than 60,000 surgical pathology and cytology specimens annually, with the Stanford Blood Center collecting approximately 200 units of blood per day to support Stanford Health Care and Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital.

The laboratory operates an extensive in-house test menu spanning routine and esoteric chemistry, hematology, immunology and special chemistry, microbiology (using MALDI-TOF), virology, special coagulation, biochemical genetics, flow cytometry, immunofluorescence, electron microscopy, and cytogenetics/FISH. Its molecular genetic pathology service is built around proprietary NGS-based assays including the Stanford Actionable Mutation Panel (STAMP), Heme-STAMP, and Fusion-STAMP for solid and hematologic malignancies, alongside in-house developed tests such as POLE Mutation Detection by SNaPshot and the Flow Cytometry ALPS Screen Panel. A clinical-grade Test Directory and the MedLink web portal support electronic ordering and results access for both internal clinicians and external clients.

The business model is a professional-services model with two principal revenue streams. First, in-house clinical laboratory testing is billed to the referring provider or facility for Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children's Health patients, with insurance billing attempted only for California-covered cases. Second, the Reference Laboratory provides consultative pathology services to outside institutions worldwide under institutional-only billing, leveraging Stanford's subspecialty pathology expertise for second opinions and challenging cases. Distribution is direct to internal Stanford clinicians and to external institutions via the Clinical Lab Outreach program and a courier network across the San Francisco Bay Area, with specimens also received nationally (Pennsylvania and Maryland permits held) and globally for consultation cases. The division is accredited with distinction by the College of American Pathologists, certified by The Joint Commission, CLIA-certified, AABB-accredited, FDA-registered, and ASHI-accredited for HLA testing.

Name

Stanford Health Care Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Laboratories

Legal name

Stanford Health Care

Website

https://stanfordlab.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Stanford Health Care Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Laboratories is a nonprofit academic pathology division providing comprehensive anatomic, clinical, molecular, and transfusion medicine testing to Stanford Health Care, Stanford Children's Health, and outside institutions worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Clinical Laboratory and Pathology Services

NAICS

Medical Laboratories (621511), Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories (6215)

SIC

Services-Medical Laboratories (8071)

akta.pro primary industry

Anatomic Pathology (Histopathology & Cytopathology) (HLAFAMAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Clinical Chemistry & Immunoassay Laboratories (HLAFAMAB), Reference & Esoteric Testing Laboratories (HLAFAMAJ), Specialty & Biomarker Laboratory Services (Immunoassays/Flow/Cytometry) (HLAGAEAB)

Keywords

• Clinical laboratory testing
• Anatomic pathology services
• Molecular genetic pathology
• Transfusion medicine services
• Reference laboratory testing

Headquarters

HQ city

Stanford

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Clinical Laboratory Testing Services: Stanford Health Care Lab's standard practice is to bill charges to the referring Provider or Facility for tests ordered. In some cases, SHC Lab may be able to bill the patient's insurance provider for tests. Pathology and Lab Services involve two separate components: technical services related to processing testing, and professional services related to physician work of interpreting results and rendering diagnoses.
2. Reference Laboratory Testing: Consultative pathology services to pathologists around the world for challenging cases. SHC Reference Laboratory only provides institutional billing for pathology consultation services - all charges must be billed to the requesting institution.

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Core offering

Stanford Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Laboratories delivers comprehensive anatomic and clinical pathology diagnostic testing services, including surgical pathology across all organ subspecialties, hematopathology, dermatopathology, neuropathology, cytopathology, autopsy pathology, and clinical pathology testing in clinical chemistry, hematology, microbiology, virology, immunology, and special coagulation. The laboratory also operates molecular pathology and clinical genomics with proprietary NGS panels (STAMP, Heme-STAMP, Fusion-STAMP), a transfusion medicine service, and the Stanford Blood Center with an HLA laboratory for transplantation support. It serves Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children's Health patients in-house and provides reference laboratory and pathology consultation services to outside institutions worldwide, performing over 12 million clinical laboratory tests annually.

Product overview

Stanford Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Laboratories operates as a comprehensive pathology and laboratory medicine organization offering multiple interconnected service lines. The core portfolio consists of Anatomic Pathology Services (covering all surgical pathology subspecialties including breast, cardiovascular, GI, genitourinary, gynecologic, head & neck, hepatic, pediatric, pulmonary, renal, and soft tissue pathology, plus autopsy, cytopathology, dermatopathology, hematopathology, and neuropathology), Clinical Pathology Services (including clinical chemistry, hematology, immunology & special chemistry, microbiology, special coagulation, and virology), Molecular Pathology & Clinical Genomics (featuring molecular genetic pathology with NGS panels STAMP, Heme-STAMP, and Fusion-STAMP, plus cytogenetics/FISH and clinical genomics), Transfusion Medicine Service (with immunohematology reference lab), and Stanford Blood Center (community blood center with HLA lab). Additional services include reference lab testing for outside institutions, a comprehensive Test Directory platform, MedLink Client Web Portal for results access, and specialized ancillary testing (immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry, immunofluorescence, electron microscopy). The organization performs over 12 million clinical laboratory tests annually and evaluates over 60,000 surgical pathology and cytology specimens.

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Products and services

• Anatomic Pathology Services Expert diagnostic services across all subspecialties of pathology including autopsy, cytopathology, dermatopathology, hematopathology, neuropathology, ophthalmic pathology, surgical pathology, and organ-specific pathology (breast, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, gynecologic, head & neck, liver, pediatric, pulmonary & thoracic, renal, soft tissue & bone) for Stanford patients and referring physicians.
• Clinical Pathology Services Wide range of routine and esoteric clinical pathology testing including biochemical genetics, clinical chemistry, hematology, histocompatibility and immunogenetics (HLA), immunology & special chemistry, microbiology, special coagulation, and virology.
• Molecular Pathology and Clinical Genomics Diagnostic nucleic acid-based testing for hereditary disorders, cancer diagnosis and management through molecular genetic pathology, cytogenetics/FISH, and clinical genomics.
• Transfusion Medicine Service Full range of testing and blood products for trauma, transplant, and patients with chronic anemia including blood typing, antibody screening, crossmatching, apheresis services, and immunohematology reference laboratory services.
• Stanford Blood Center Independent community blood center providing whole blood, apheresis, and special donations blood collection; Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Laboratory (HLA Lab) for transplantation support; and research blood products, collecting about 200 units of blood daily.
• Reference Lab Testing and Pathology Consultations Consultative pathology services and reference laboratory testing for outside institutions and pathologists worldwide seeking expert second opinions and specialized testing on challenging cases, with institutional billing and specimen submission via courier, mail, or electronic ordering.
• Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory (HLA) State-of-the-art histocompatibility and genetic testing for solid organ and bone marrow transplantation, including HLA typing, chimerism testing, HLA antibody testing, and flow crossmatches, ASHI-accredited.
• Flow Cytometry Laboratory Clinical flow cytometry diagnostics including leukemia/lymphoma immunophenotyping, minimal residual disease monitoring, CD34+ stem cell quantitation, lymphocyte subset analysis, PNH screen, and Sézary syndrome detection.
• STAMP - Stanford Actionable Mutation Panel Multigene NGS-based test targeting genes selected for their known impact as actionable targets of existing or emerging anti-cancer therapies, prognostic features, or mutation recurrence frequency in patients with known cancer types.
• Heme-STAMP NGS Panel Multigene NGS-based test detecting single nucleotide variants (SNVs), short insertions and deletions, and selected gene rearrangements in genes recurrently altered in myeloid and lymphoid neoplasms.
• Fusion-STAMP NGS Panel Multigene NGS-based test detecting potentially clinically actionable gene fusion events at the RNA level in genes implicated in cancer.
• Clinical Virology Laboratory Nucleic acid amplification testing for viral diseases including respiratory pathogens, HPV, HIV genotyping/resistance, viral load monitoring (HIV, HCV, HBV, CMV, EBV, BK), and Zika/Chikungunya/Dengue.
• Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Bacterial, fungal, and parasitic testing using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, NAATs, and phenotypic assays; includes bacteriology, mycology, mycobacteriology, parasitology, and molecular microbiology.
• Special Coagulation Laboratory Comprehensive clinical and laboratory evaluation of hemostasis and thrombosis disorders including coagulation factor deficiencies, von Willebrand disease, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
• Immunology and Special Chemistry Esoteric immunoassays and chemistry testing for infectious/autoimmune diseases, allergy, tumor markers, endocrinology, therapeutic drug monitoring, trace/heavy metals, and serum/urine/CSF protein electrophoresis.
• Clinical Chemistry Laboratory Biochemical analysis of body fluids including electrolyte panels, metabolic panels, liver/renal tests, lipid panels, toxicology, therapeutic drug monitoring, clinical endocrinology, and blood gas analysis.
• Hematology Laboratory Routine and advanced hematology testing including complete blood count, blood differential, smear morphology, bone marrow staining, routine coagulation (PT/PTT), urinalysis, pregnancy testing, and body fluid cell counts.
• Biochemical Genetics Laboratory Diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs) using HPLC, GC-MS, and LC-MS/MS methods for qualitative detection and quantitative determination of diagnostic biomarkers.
• Pathology Second Opinions Expert second opinion diagnostic review services for confirming or establishing diagnoses on challenging cases, leveraging Stanford's subspecialty pathology expertise for outside patients and physicians.
• POLE Mutation Detection by SNaPshot Assay designed to detect 15 somatic mutation sites within exons 9, 11, 13, and 14 of the proofreading exonuclease domain of POLE using single base extension methodology, supporting cancer diagnostics and immunotherapy eligibility determination.
• Flow Cytometry ALPS Screen Panel Quantifies T cell subsets based on expression of CD4, CD8, TCRα/β, and TCRγ/δ by flow cytometry and assesses for the presence of increased TCRα/β+ DN T cells for ALPS diagnosis.
• Beta-2 Transferrin Test Detects cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea or otorrhea by protein electrophoresis for identification of CSF leaks.

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ARUP LaboratoriesminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 October 2025ARUP Laboratories serves as a send-out reference laboratory for Stanford Health Care Clinical Laboratory. Due to a reagent shortage from manufacturer Roche for lipoprotein (a) testing, Stanford is temporarily sending lipoprotein (a) specimens to ARUP for analysis. This is a temporary arrangement to maintain testing continuity for patients.

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