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Just 66 of 742 Labs Submit Rate Data to California Department of Health Care Services
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UnitedHealthcare Warns Labs: Don’t Waive Patient Fees
This article is an excerpt from a 1,500-word article in the March 21 issue of THE DARK REPORT. Full details of UHC’s battle against out-of-network labs, as well as its plans to begin requiring pre-authorization for genetic testing, are included in the original article, available to paid members…
UnitedHealthcare Warns Labs Not to Waive Patient Fees
CEO SUMMARY: UnitedHealthcare directly tackled the issue of out-of-network labs waiving or capping copayments, coinsurance and deductibles that are to be paid by patients. In a network bulletin this month, UHC said that such arrangements may violate federal law and could lead to state ins…
LabCorp Now Larger than Quest, Two Labs Report 2015 Earnings
IN RECENT WEEKS, the nation’s two largest lab companies reported fourth quarter and full-year earnings for 2015. The earnings reports reveal how the paths of the two companies are diverging. The companies are diverging because of a major acquisition made in February 2015, by Laboratory Cor…
Manhattan Labs Gets Infusion of Equity Cash – February 11, 2013
CEO SUMMARY: Manhattan Labs tapped a private equity company for growth capital last month. The company says its strategy is to deliver concierge-level quality lab services to the…
Letter to Florida Doctor Offers to Waive Lab Test Fees
CEO SUMMARY: Florida’s highly-competitive market for lab testing services is again seeing some lab companies use “Waiver of Charges to Managed Care Patients” agreements with physicians in situations where the lab is an out-of-network provider. This means the lab will do free testing…
CMS Releases Draft of PAMA Market Price Rule
CEO SUMMARY: CMS’ proposed rule details how it will collect private market data, then use that data to establish prices for the Medicare Part B Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule beginning in 2017. The proposed rule will limit data reporting to les…
LabCorp Loses A Hospital Lab Joint Venture
ONE OF THE NATION’S LONGEST-RUNNING LAB OUTREACH JOINT VENTURES involving a public lab company and a major hospital came to a quiet end on June 30. That’s the day when United/Dynacare Laboratories, LLC, ceased to exist. This was a joint venture in Milwaukee that was established …
Medi-Cal to Cut Lab Pay on July 1 by 25% to 30%
CEO SUMMARY: Since 2011, state officials in California have aggressively cut laboratory testing fees for Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. Now state officials say they will implement a new methodology next month for determining lab testing fees. The new methodology is based…
Deep-Discount Lab Prices to Haunt All California Labs
FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS, THE CLINICAL LAB INDUSTRY been marked by a fundamental schism. On one side of the schism are the public lab companies that have aggressively used deeply-discounted loss-leader pricing practices when negotiating managed care contracts to capture market share. On the other si…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
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