CEO SUMMARY: Medicare/Medicaid regulators get serious about laboratory billing and reimbursement practices. Industry observers say it represents a major shift and will have immense financial and operational impact on every clinical laboratory in the United States. FOLLOWING YEARS of “benign neglect” toward Medicare billing practices, regulators will now scrutinize laboratory reimbursement activities with full vigor. […]
Government Regulators Transforming Lab Industry
New compliance guidelines for laboratories represent watershed change for the industry
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume IV No. 4 - March 10, 1997 Issue
- Tags: aco, clinical lab, clinical laboratories, Clinical Laboratory, clinical labs, commercial laboratories, compliance program, compliance requirements, dark report, diagnosis code, hie, impac, laboratories, laboratory administrator, laboratory conference, laboratory executive, laboratory industry, laboratory manager, laboratory managers, laboratory practice, Medicare, medicare billing, the dark report, the laboratory
