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PAMA Data Projections Led to Decision to Sell Lab
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 3 – February 21, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Following passage of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, officials at PeaceHealth and PeaceHealth Laboratories began to model the financial effect this law would have on this long-established hospital lab outreach program. Based on projections of a 20% cut in reven…
Ending ‘Lab Tests as a Commodity’
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 2 – January 30, 2017 Issue
WITH HEALTHCARE POISED TO MAKE FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES in both the delivery of care (think integration, ACOs, medical homes) and how providers are paid (less fee-for-service, more budgeted payment metho…
Should Labs File Court Challenge To PAMA Price Report Rule?
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 16 – November 28, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Just four weeks remain before CMS begins collecting private payer clinical laboratory test price data. Many lab industry executives have charged that Medicare officials are not following the language of the PAMA statute or the intent of Congress. At stake are $5.4 billion in …
PAMA Final Rule Issued, CMS Plans to Cut Rates by 5.6%
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 9 – July 5, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: CMS issued its final rule for implementing the laboratory payment reform included in the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) on June 17. All labs will see significant reductions to the Medicare Part B Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule that becomes effective on Jan…
Lab CEO Sees Three Trends Cutting Volume, Revenue
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 4 – March 21, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Following the sale of his hospital lab outreach business to a national lab company, former CEO James Fantus told THE DARK REPORT about the significant trends he saw unfolding in the Northeast. They include: a shrinking number of physician customers for labs; a rising number o…
Grodman Resigns from BRLI, New President Is Henderson
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 4 – March 21, 2016 Issue
THERE IS A NEW LEADER at Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc., now owned by OPKO Health, Inc., of Miami, Florida. Last week, Gregory Henderson, MD, PhD, was named as President of BRLI. Henderson takes over from Marc Grodman, MD, who resigned after serving as Chairman, P…
PAML Joint Venture News from The Dark Report Intelligence
November 2, 2007 PAML and HCA Agree to Start New Lab Joint Venture in Utah …
August 3, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 11 – August 3, 2015 Issue
Cerner Corporation is celebrating a big summer of contract awards from the Department of Defense. First up was a project to support further standardization of anatomic pathology within the laboratories operated worldwide by the DoD. Early in July, it was announced t…
Locked Out of Payer Network, NH Hospital Opens Lab Company
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 4 – March 9, 2015 Issue
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…
Could Health Insurers Be at War with Clinical Labs?
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 8 – June 9, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It may sound ridiculous to assert that the nation’s largest health insurers are now “waging war” against clinical labs. However, some very smart people in the profession of laboratory medicine are expressing this opinion. To support such a conclusion, they point to paye…
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