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In New Mexico, Three Collaborators Improve Patient Care, Outcomes
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 11 – August 12, 2019 Issue
IT’S OFFICIAL! A YEAR-LONG COLLABORATION involving a health insurer, a clinical laboratory, and an analytics company showed that insurers and physicians can use clinically-actionable intelligence developed from medical lab test data to improve patient outcomes. This important accomplishment in patie…
CMS Adjustments for Medicare Fee Schedule Might Be Too Late
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXV No. 16 – November 13, 2018 Issue
This is a summary of two articles in the Nov. 13, 2018 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete articles are available only to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: On Nov. 2, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its Physician Fee S…
NILA, ACLA Respond to CMS 2019 Final Lab Rule
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 16 – November 13, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: On Nov. 2, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its Physician Fee Schedule for 2019. It says it will expand the number of labs from which it collects data about the lab test prices paid by private health insurers. While some labs may welcome these c…
Test price data shows major difference between Medicare lab fee schedule and private payers
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIII No. 15 – November 7, 2016 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,500-word article in the November 7Â issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: THE DA…
XIFIN Analysis of Its Real Price Data Shows Hospital Lab Price Effect
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 15 – November 7, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In a new analysis of data its lab clients will use to report market prices to CMS, XIFIN Inc., reports private payers paid independent labs a weighted average price that was 19.6% less than what Medicare pays for 20 of its highest-volume tests. By contrast, private payers pa…
Florida Pathology Group Lost Volume After BeaconLBS Started
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 9 – July 5, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: A 22-physician pathology group in Tampa has complied with rules for lab test ordering that UnitedHealthcare and BeaconLBS established, yet has experienced a steep decline in the volume of specimens it receives. Physicians told the pathologists that other labs were not using t…
Medi-Cal to Cut Lab Pay on July 1 by 25% to 30%
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII NO. 9 – June 22, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Since 2011, state officials in California have aggressively cut laboratory testing fees for Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. Now state officials say they will implement a new methodology next month for determining lab testing fees. The new methodology is based…
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…
CMS Gives Deemed Status to A2LA under CLIA Law
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 5 – April 7, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Quietly published in the March 25 issue of the Federal Register was a notice that CMS had granted deeming authority for CLIA to the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA). This action gives laboratories in the United States a new choice to meet the accredita…
Broward Health’s Lab Pursues Multiple Ways to Cut Lab Costs
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 15 – November 11, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Tasked with cutting $2 million from their lab’s annual operating budget, the lab team at Broward Health System instituted changes that included a lab test formulary and ordering algorithms. In collaboration with physicians, these changes reduced the use of outmoded tests wh…
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