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LIS-EHR Fees Increasing, Say Hospital Lab Execs
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 4 – March 18, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Hospital and health system lab managers say some vendors of electronic health record systems for independent physicians are aggressively raising the fees they charge labs. Labs serving outreach physicians now pay more in two ways, they say. First, they pay the price the vendo…
Pathology Firm Pays $63M to Settle Qui Tam Case
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 3 – February 25, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Inform Diagnostics, formerly Miraca Life Sciences, settled the federal qui tam case while denying wrongdoing. The $63.5 million settlement will by paid by the former owner, Miraca Holdings, a Japanese company. The federal Department of Justice alleged that the company—then …
For Labs, Blockchain Offers New Opportunities
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 3 – February 25, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Some of blockchain’s proponents view its potential uses in health information technology to combat cybersecurity threats and improve the secure exchange of health information through electronic medical record systems. But for clinical laboratories, blockchain could be the k…
Lower Prices, More Data in UHC’s New Lab Network?
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 2 – February 4, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s been a common strategy among managed care payers to seek the lowest prices for clinical laboratory testing when negotiating contracts with labs. However, lower prices may become less important over time as the health system moves away from fee-for-service payment towar…
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Builds Strong Lab Outreach Business
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 10 – July 9, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As health networks and hospitals consider outsourcing their lab outreach programs, the lab team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (D-H) offers lessons about the value of retaining outreach. D-H is now in the eighth year of a sustained expansion of its laboratory outreach …
In Florida, More Tests Added to UHC’s Decision-Support Program
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 1 – January 2, 2018 Issue
IN THE FIRST BROAD EXPANSION OF ITS pilot decision-support program for clinical lab testing in Florida, UnitedHealthcare (UHC) will add genetic and molecular tests, drug tests, and pathology procedures, among other assays starting in two months. On March 1, UHC will expand its labor…
Paths of Hospital Labs, Independent Labs Diverge
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 16 – November 20, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With each passing year, the primary role of hospital and health system labs evolves in a different direction than that of independent lab companies. This trend is a response to the creation of integrated delivery networks paid on value and how they are scored on their ability…
NYU Langone and Sonic Healthcare Create Laboratory Outreach Joint Venture
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 13 – September 18, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: NYU Langone Health recognized the clinical and financial advantages of providing competitive lab outreach testing services to its employed physicians. The laboratory joint venture with Sonic Healthcare USA will allow NYU Langone to increase use of its hospital labs and will f…
Issues Encountered with Anthem’s Pre-approval
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 11 – August 7, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Since Anthem and AIM Specialty Health began a prior-authorization program for genetic testing July 1, a Northeast lab has not had any genetic tests approved through the new system. Physicians told the lab that the steps required for prior authorization were disruptive. Those …
Details Emerge About End of 31-Year Lab JV
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 10 – July 17, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Quest Diagnostics is no longer an equity partner in the CompuNet Clinical Laboratory joint venture, which has operated successfully since its founding in 1986. Typical of other lab JVs and inpatient lab management agreements that the hospital or health system partners do not rene…
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