Tag: managed care strategies

Aetna Says: LabCorp Is Out & Quest Diagnostics Is In

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XIV No. 4 - March 12, 2007 issue

CEO SUMMARY: January 1, 2007 can be considered the start of a new epoch in managed care contracting for lab test services. News of Aetna’s decision to favor Quest Diagnostics Incorporated with a five-year contract as its only national laboratory provider shows the direction this new epoch is apt to take. Eventually it may become

View Article

Innovative Management Ideas Theme of Laboratory War College

By Robert Michel, from the Volume V No. 4 - March 23, 1998 issue

ONCE AGAIN, THE Executive War College on Laboratory Management promises to be the management event of the year. Scheduled for May 12-13 at the New Orleans Sheraton, the program features 26 presentations covering the latest developments inn laboratory management.

As in past years, there will be case studies presented by some of the most innovative laboratory

View Article

Volume XXVI No. 2 – February 4, 2019

NOW THAT MOST HOSPITALS ARE INCLUDED as applicable laboratories that must report their PAMA private payer lab test price data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, managers of those labs will benefit from the incisive analysis in this issue of the lessons learned during the 2017 PAMA reporting cycle. THE DARK REPORT further offers recommendations on how labs can do a better job of gathering and reporting their own data to CMS. Also, TDR delivers an exclusive analysis of why the Government Accounting Office's assertion that CMS will be paying billions more for Part B clinical lab tests is simply wrong.

See the full table of contents

Tag: managed care strategies

Enter Your Login Credentials