CEO SUMMARY: Florida’s highly-competitive market for lab testing services is again seeing some lab companies use “Waiver of Charges to Managed Care Patients” agreements with physicians in situations where the lab is an out-of-network provider. This means the lab will do free testing—waiving charges to the health plan and the patient—in order to keep the […]
Letter to Florida Doctor Offers to Waive Lab Test Fees
Attorney believes that such arrangements may be false claims under state insurance regulations
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXII, Number 17 - December 7, 2015 Issue
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