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UroCor’s Sales Tactics Violated Medicare Laws
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XI No. 10 – July 19, 2004 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: By issuing a multi-count criminal indictment against three former UroCor executives, one federal attorney is creating new legal precedents for the laboratory industry. The criminal charges accuse UroCor of inducing physicians through such gambits as deeply-discounted pricing …
OIG Moves to Address “Usual Charge” Issue
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 14 – October 20, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Federal regulators are taking another crack at defining “usual charges.” Language in the proposed rules published last month precisely defines which payers should be included in determining “usual charges” and what charge basis to use for specific payers. Once effecti…
LabCorp’s MacMahon Provides Insights About Lab Marketplace
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 5 – April 14, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists will be particularly interested in what Thomas MacMahon has to say about the evolution of laboratory medicine. As Chairman, President, and CEO of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, he has continuous access to some of the best strategic analysis about the…
SBCL Makes System-Wide Commitment To AutoPap
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 15 – November 9, 1998 Issue
SOMEONE ALWAYS HAS TO BE FIRST to adopt new technology. In the case of automated cytology, it will be SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (SBCL). SBCL and NeoPath, Inc. announced a four-year national agreement between the two companies on October 9 which will e…
Blunt Talk From HMO Blue’s Ancillary Contracts Manager
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 11 – August 17, 1998 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: By now, most clinical laboratory executives and pathologists have discovered a new fact of life: provider status with managed care organizations is a critical success factor. Without provider status, the laboratory is denied access to patients and the reimbursement associated…
Tennessee Lab Network In Start-Up Preparations
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 4 – March 23, 1998 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Planning for the Middle Tennessee Healthcare Network’s proposed regional laboratory network took longer than expected, but not without good cause. Organizers of this laboratory network did their homework and created a solid business plan. Approval by CEOs from the participa…
Market Forces Cause Detroit’s Lab Network To Launch Operations
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 1 – January 19, 1998 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Joint Venture Hospital Laboratories’ success rests on an essential fact: it exists to respond to marketplace demands. The network links laboratory operations of 24 hospitals owned by eight integrated delivery systems in Greater Detroit. Not only is it the oldest continuousl…
Laboratory Trade Group Launches New Activities
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 2 – January 27, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Long overlooked by most of the laboratory industry, ACLA may be in the process of revolutionary change. Since David Sundwall, M.D., became President, ACLA has taken a more assertive stance on a wide variety of issues which affect all laboratories, not just ACLA members….
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