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“Here’s to Plain Talk and Clear Understanding!”
“WELL, SIR, HERE’S TO PLAIN TALK AND CLEAR UNDERSTANDING.” That’s a well-known line in the classic 1941 detective movie, “The Maltese Falcon.” It’s spoken by the Kasper Gutman character, played by Sidney Greenstreet, to San Francisco private eye, Sam Spade, played by Humphrey Bogart. Gu…
Labs Face “Coercive” Bid, Not Competitive Bidding
CEO SUMMARY: In the weeks since the December 5 bidders’ conference in San Diego, where Medicare officials took the wraps off the complete requirements for the Laboratory Bidding Demonstration Project, the Clinical Laboratory Coalition has begun to consider strategies to delay or cancel …
Speculating On How Labs Might Respond to Demo
CEO SUMMARY: Statements and actions by CMS officials responsible for the laboratory competitive bidding demonstration project reveal the likelihood that they are using it as a Trojan Horse. While talking about implementation of a three-year demonstration project in the San Diego MSA, CMS …
August 27, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Something different is happening when the Associated Press does a story about how the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA), a lab industry trade group, has spent money lobbying Congress. The Associated Press used federal records to confirm that ACLA, paid …
Intense Competition for Market Share in New York
ONE OF THE MOST TURBULENT MARKETS FOR LAB SERVICES TODAY is New York City and the Tri-State area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. This is ground zero in the fight for market share between Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and Laboratory Corporation of America a…
Exclusive Lab Contracts Have Consequences
CEO SUMMARY: During the past seven months, competition in the Northeast has intensified. Decisions by UnitedHealth and Aetna to exclude a national laboratory from their respective provider panels has forced many physicians to reconsider their choice of laboratory provider—creating an op…
ACLA Prepares to Tackle Tough Lab Industry Issues
CEO SUMMARY: At its annual meeting last month, the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) rolled out a new campaign to educate Congress, government and private payers, and the American public about the value of laboratory testing. Called “Results for Life,” the campaign is a …
Implementation Date Passes on Medicare Competitive Bid Project
YESTERDAY, APRIL 1, WAS THE DAY that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) was scheduled to implement the first sites for the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Services Competitive Bidding Demonstration project. It was good news for the laboratory industry that the day passed with…
Lab Competitive Bidding Project Slated For Jan. 1
CEO SUMMARY: In a rather quiet fashion, Medicare officials have disclosed timetable dates for implementing the laboratory competitive bidding demonstration mandated by the 2003 Medicare spending bill. Medicare intends to announce the names of participating laboratories by January 1, 2007….
Lab MUEs Reconsidered, CMS Changes Course
CEOSUMMARY: It may bear are moment of common sense. Last month, Medicare officials stated their intent to exclude clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology CPT codes from the “Phase One” implementation of Medically Unbelievable Edits (MUEs). It is a positive step, and comes in respon…
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