CEO SUMMARY: There’s a touch of irony in the fact that the Medicare program is a national leader in encouraging hospitals, physicians, and other providers to pay greater attention to the voice of patients. Yet within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), officials tasked with developing the laboratory competitive demonstration project seem to […]
Three Strikes Against CMS Before Bid Demo Begins
CMS fails to engage voices of patients, of physicians, of lab profession in demo’s design
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XIV No. 18 - December 31, 2007 Issue
- Tags: clinical lab, Clinical Laboratory, clinical laboratory service, clinical laboratory services, competitive bid, diagnostic testing, hie, lab test, lab tests, laboratories, laboratory industry, laboratory medicine, laboratory service, laboratory services, laboratory tech, Medicare, pathologists, private payer, the laboratory
