Lab Executives Declare Concerns about Fee Cuts

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 1 – January 2, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Members of Joint Venture Hospital Laboratories in Michigan anticipate that the 2018 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule rates being implemented under PAMA will lower payment from Medicare to less than the cost of running tests, especially for rural and critical access hospitals….

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December 11, 2017 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 17 – December 11, 2017 Issue

To deal with a shortage of surgical pathologists in the United Kingdom, the British National Health Service (NHS) is looking at solutions, such as deployment of digital pathology systems. According to a story in Pharma Times, the NHS is negotiating with Roche Diagnostics…

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For Top 20 Tests, CMS to Cut Payment by 28% in 2018-2020

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 14 – October 9, 2017 Issue

ON SEPT. 22, MEDICARE OFFICIALS RELEASED THE DRAFT PRICES for the 2018 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule. The bad news for the lab industry is that the fee cuts are deeper than the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had predicted earlier. The price cuts to clinical la…

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March 12, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 4 – March 12, 2012 Issue

One of the nation’s more clever business models for hospital laboratories is co-tenancy. It is a proven way that lab administrators can reduce the cost of inpatient testing. It is for this reason that the Michigan Co-Tenancy Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan continues to grow. It a…

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Shaw & Adelman Successful Support of Lab Networks Need Hospital Leadership

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 3 – February 20, 2012 Issue

CEO Summary: In the second installment of our exclusive two- part interview, the executive directors of two regional laboratory networks formed in the 1990s (one in Michigan and one in Washington State) share their assessment of why their respective lab networks have performed strongly ov…

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From Modest Beginnings, Two Lab Networks Find Success

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 2 – January 30, 2012 Issue

“For 20 years, our regional laboratory network here in Detroit has played an important role in helping member …

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Michigan’s JVHL Partners With AMA to Use LOINC

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 9 – July 5, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Office-based physicians in Michigan can use a program offered by the American Medical Association (AMA) to get assistance in adapting their electronic medical record (EMR) systems to utilize LOINC for lab test ordering and lab test results reporting. This service is …

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Pathology Group Establishes Lab Test Exchange Networks

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 4 – March 21, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: After several decades of steadfastly maintaining their independence from other pathology groups in their community, progressive hospital-based pathology groups are beginning to create regional laboratory testing networks. These collaborations generally start small an…

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Community Hospital Builds Thriving Lab Outreach Program

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 8 – June 4, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: When 330-bed Botsford Hospital of Farmington Hills, Michigan, got interested in laboratory outreach 10 years ago, it brought in a new laboratory leader, invested in new analyzers and informatics, and then let the quality of the operation attract new business from the communit…

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JVHL Signs a Contract with UnitedHealth Group

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 2 – January 29, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: When UnitedHealth Group announced its exclusive national contract with Laboratory Corporation of America, Joint Venture Hospital Laboratories (JVHL) saw opportunity. That’s because LabCorp does not have a significant presence in Michigan. JVHL parlayed its statewide network…

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