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Lawsuits Allege LabCorp, Quest Overcharged Uninsured Patients
CEO SUMMARY: Court documents filed in U.S. District courts in New Jersey and North Carolina provide details about how each of the two lab companies set lab test prices differently—as much as 10 times higher—for cash-paying patients than for patients who have Medicare, Medicaid, or com…
Did National Labs Sign Value-based Payer Contracts?
IT IS AN IMPORTANT SIGN OF THE TIMES when press releases about the two new national lab services agreements that UnitedHealthcare just announced with Laboratory Corporation of America and Quest Diagnostics emphasize how value-based programs will be a…
Locked Out of Payer Network, NH Hospital Opens Lab Company
CEO SUMMARY: Since Anthem launched its site of service program in New Hampshire in 2010, labs in the state’s hospitals have mostly been excluded from its network and have lost market share. Recently one community hospital developed an unusual strategy to win back those patients…
Humana Reduces Number of Labs in its Networks
CEO SUMMARY: In Ohio, a lab director said his lab was not informed directly about its exclusion from the Humana lab network. Lab officials got the word from their client physicians. In Texas, another lab director said Humana cut 35 lab contracts, reportedly because the insurer wanted to s…
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Volume XXIX, No. 7 – May 16, 2022
Better collection and use of clinical data was a prominent theme discussed by attendees at last month’s annual Executive War College Conference on Laboratory and Pathology Management in New Orleans. Also, an attorney warns that federal fraud investigators are targeting labs that did extensive COVID-19 testing during the height of the pandemic.
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