July 2018

Rural Hospital Group Says Lab Billing Model Is Legal

CEO SUMMARY: In recent years, many rural hospitals have entered into agreements to expand their laboratory outreach businesses. In an interview, the president of the National Association of Rural Hospitals said rural hospitals often bill for lab outreach services under Medicare’s 70/30 shell rule. This rule, as modified by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of […]

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Attorney Explains 70/30 Rule, Pass-Through Bill Arrangements

Laboratory Compliance / Joseph Burns

HOW THE LAB OUTREACH BUSINESSES of rural hospitals originate lab specimens and bill for lab tests is getting increased scrutiny. The reason for this rise in interest is that a growing number of rural hospitals are generating almost as much revenue from laboratory outreach testing as they get from all other inpatient services. Most rural

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Builds Strong Lab Outreach Business

Laboratory Management / Joseph Burns

CEO SUMMARY: As health networks and hospitals consider outsourcing their lab outreach programs, the lab team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (D-H) offers lessons about the value of retaining outreach. D-H is now in the eighth year of a sustained expansion of its laboratory outreach business. It has combined its lab outreach strategy with a proven

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Pap Test Errors in Ireland Attributed to Quest, CPL

In Vitro Diagnostics / Joseph Burns

CEO SUMMARY: In Ireland, the big story in healthcare at the moment is the discovery that the nation’s cervical cancer screening program has failed hundreds of women who had pre-cancerous conditions or cervical cancer, but, as alleged in numerous court cases, their tests were inaccurate or the results not communicated to their physicians, or both.

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July 9, 2018 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

Late Breaking Lab News / Robert Michel

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center of Wake Forest, N.C., has been notified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in a letter dated June 15, that it is back in compliance with Medicare Conditions of Participation. Earlier this year, following inspection of the hospital and its anatomic pathology department, federal and state officials identified

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Rural Hospital Spokesman: Hospital Lab Outreach Programs Are Legal

TDR Insider / R. Lewis Dark

CEO SUMMARY: As the debate grows more heated, supporters of hospital outpatient department (HOPD) billing schemes have ramped up their defense of the practice. The president of the National Association of Rural Hospitals tells THE DARK REPORT that rural hospitals are permitted to bill for hospital lab outreach program services under Medicare’s 70/30 shell rule.

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