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Pathologist Is on Board Of Central Florida RHIO
CEO SUMMARY: Participation in the development and implementation of Central Florida’s nascent regional health information organization (RHIO) is helping Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL), of Austin, Texas, achieve four strategic goals. Philip Chen, M.D., Ph.D., CPL’s Vice Presiden…
November 27, 2006 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
“Postal Rage” is the term coined to describe the phenomenon of crazed postal workers rampaging through post office facilities shooting at co-workers. In recent days, the nation may have seen its first example of “Patient Rage” in a hospital. On November 20, a patient standing in line to get a…
United Health: Quest Is “Out”–LabCorp Is “In”
CEOSUMMARY: Effective on January 1, 2007, UnitedHealth Group will have one national contract laboratory. On that date, Laboratory Corporation of America becomes the preferred provider and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated becomes an out-of-network laboratory. With access to 34 million United…
Medicare’s Lab Competitive Bidding Demonstration
EVERYONE SHOULD MARK JANUARY 1, 2007 ON THEIR CALENDARS. On that date, just 14 weeks from now, Medicare administrators intend to announce which laboratory bidders will be allowed to provide lab testing services in the laboratory competitive bidding demonstration that was mandated by the 2003 Medicare…
Lab Competitive Bidding Project Slated For Jan. 1
CEO SUMMARY: In a rather quiet fashion, Medicare officials have disclosed timetable dates for implementing the laboratory competitive bidding demonstration mandated by the 2003 Medicare spending bill. Medicare intends to announce the names of participating laboratories by January 1, 2007….
Medi-Cal Abandons Lab Contract Scheme
CEO SUMMARY: Another threat to limit all laboratories’ access to Medicaid patients has ended. Just as the Medicaid lab contracting initiative proposed last year in Florida collapsed from its innate complexity, so also has a similar contracting initiative collapsed in California. In both…
Bi-Annual Look at Trends Reshaping Clinical Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Among other things, we declare the end to the heyday of the independent commercial lab company which offers a broad test menu to all types of office-based physicians. In its place springs forth the specialty or niche testing laboratory. Small and focused on a specific number …
Government Health Contracting Has a Seamy Side
WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO YOUR LABORATORY if either or both Medicare and your state’s Medicaid program initiated some type of competitive bidding for laboratory testing services? I’ll bet there would be a level of financial pain, not to mention the consequences to physicians and patients as long-stan…
Florida Medicaid Contract Is On-Again, Off-Again
CEO SUMMARY: Start with a flawed idea: Medicaid lab testing costs in Florida can be cut by awarding an exclusive statewide contract to one laboratory company. Compound that bad idea by designing a contract awards process that guarantees the state will pay twice for a number of tests while…
Change Beneath Surface Marks 2004 Lab Stories
CEO SUMMARY: Presented here are THE DARK REPORT’S “Ten Biggest Lab Stories of 2004.” These are the events we consider most important to the lab industry during the year. However, in contrast to past years, 2004 lacked the types of blockbuster events which radically change and reshap…
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