CEO SUMMARY: Since 1987, the clinical lab industry has endured almost non-stop cuts in the absolute level of Medicare reimbursement for lab testing. But the time may be ripe for laboratories to work together to effect far-reaching reforms to Medicare laboratory payment policies. Just as the Institute of Medicine issued its 12 recommendations for reforming
Institute of Medicine Calls For 12 Medicare Lab Reforms
By Robert Michel, from the Volume VIII No. 6 - April 30, 2001 issue