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Wall Street Journal Raises Allegations of Lab Fraud
CEO SUMMARY: Federal investigators are looking into possible violations of the antikickback law by a number of labs offering cardiology tests. The labs under investigation are alleged to have paid physicians processing fees of up to $20 per patient, the Journal reported in a front page st…
To Be Paid More, Labs Must Deliver More Value
GETTING PAID FOR LAB TESTS IS BECOMING A MORE URGENT PRIORITY for both clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups this year. Multiple factors are responsible for lengthening the collection cycle and reducing overall reimbursement for lab testing. Clients of THE DARK REPORT have followed our…
Philly Blue Cross Contract: LabCorp In; Quest Out
CEO SUMMARY: Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia decided to select Laboratory Corporation of America for its new eight-year managed care contract that took effect on July 1. However, the real story is the aggressive bidding war between the two national labs. Sources say LabCorp bid an…
Payer Contracts and Labs’ Access to Patients
ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT TRENDS IN RECENT YEARS is the exclusion of community lab companies and local pathology groups from a growing number of health insurer networks. In simplest terms, if a community lab is denied network provider status by the major payers in its region, it loses access to the…
UnitedHealthcare, BeaconLBS Respond with Statements
IN FLORIDA, BOTH CLINICAL LABS and physicians have expressed concerns UnitedHealthcare’s Laboratory presented in full on this page and the following page. about Benefit Management Program that formally becomes effective on October 1. From that date forward, physicians will be requi…
Longer Pay Cycle for Labs, Plus Lower Collection Rate
CEO SUMMARY: Across the United States, clinical labs, histology labs, and pathology groups are experiencing both a much longer payment cycle for claims and a decreased gross collection rate. Blame can be placed on several trends. One trend is the steady increase in the number of patients …
September 02, 2014 “Intelligence: Late- Breaking News”
There will be one less vendor of laboratory information systems (LIS) when a major acquisition is completed. Last month, Siemens AG announced that it would sell Siemens Health Services to Cerner Corp. for a price of $1.3 billion. Analysts believe tha…
NorDx CEO Shares Five Rules Critical to every Lab’s Success
CEO SUMMARY: To meet the financial challenges of healthcare today, clinical labs and pathology groups can follow the five classic lab rules of success. However, as noted by Stan Schofield, CEO of NorDx Laboratories in Scarborough, Maine, the “old school” methods need …
FDA Notifies Congress that It Will Regulate LDTs
CEO SUMMARY: Since 2006, the FDA has said it has the authority to regulate lab-developed tests, but it has held off on doing so. Now the agency says it’s time, defining LDTs as being, “designed, manufactured, and used within a single laboratory. LDTs include some genetic tests and tes…
Incyte to Develop New Ways For Pathologists to Add Value
CONSOLIDATION OF PRIVATE PRACTICE PATHOLOGY GROUPS in Washington State has been ongoing. Because of their acquisitions, CellNetix and Incyte Diagnostics are now the state’s two largest pathology groups. The next challenge for these two pathology super-groups will …
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