Budgets, provides information about supplies, personnel, and equipment, seeks avenues of cost containment, and plans long-term purchases or capital equipment. ASCP-Histotechnician (ASCP-HT), ASCP-Histotechnologist (ASCP-HTL), ASCP-Pathologist Asst (ASCP-PA): "Must have one of the following: ASCP-Histotechnician ASCP-HT, or.