CEO SUMMARY: It’s another shot across the bows to hospital and health systems that use inpatient test prices when billing health insurers for outpatient/outreach lab tests. In its report, the Health Care Cost Institute documents how these hospital lab outreach programs price their tests from three to five times higher than independent labs and POLs. […]
HCCI Reports Higher Prices for Hospital Outreach Tests
Health Care Cost Institute says health insurers, self-insured employers often pay a big mark-up for hospital outreach tests
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXX, No. 10 - July 10, 2023 Issue
- Tags: EBRI, employee benefit research institute, employer-based insurance, HCCI, Health Care Cost Institute, hospital outreach test, ivd/lab informatics, Jon Harol, Lighthouse Lab Services, Marwood Group, Medicare, Pathology Lab Solutions, physician office lab, POL, UHC, UnitedHealthcare, West Health
