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Northwell Health Lab Team Leverages Data to Add Value

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CEO SUMMARY: Today, insurers get risk-adjusted payments for treating patients who have high-cost health conditions and they make risk-adjusted payments to physicians, hospitals, and other providers. At Northwell Health, the clinical lab saw the opportunity to leverage lab test data with other clinical and demographic data to identify patients who were undiagnosed or whose conditions were

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Newsmaker Interview: Healthcare’s Transformation Now Bringing Changes to Lab Industry

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“Today, patients want to get diagnosis and treatment faster with fewer visits to the doctor’s office. They want speedier and more comprehensive delivery of clinical services, be it laboratory tests, imaging, or other procedures.”

—Ralph Taylor, President, Sysmex America, Inc.

CEO Summary: To bring testing closer to patients, clinical laboratories will need to offer sophisticated point-of-care systems

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Value-Based Care Is One Goal Of WHCN-Sonic Lab JV

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CEO SUMMARY: Announced last month, the new laboratory joint-venture partnership with Sonic Healthcare’s Sunrise Clinical Laboratories will allow WCHN to compete with other health systems and prepare to respond to health insurers’ requests that hospital systems offer lower rates in value-based payment models. WCHN has already seen payers shift to low-cost providers. For this reason,

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Gene Testing Lab Goes ‘Cold Turkey,’ Stops Billing Health Plans

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CEO SUMMARY: Last year, Kailos Genetics stopped collecting third-party payment, dropped its prices sharply, and started marketing its genetic-screening tests directly to consumers and physicians. At the time, 100% of its revenue came from third-party payers. Today, it gets 100% of its revenue from consumers. After eliminating third-party payment, revenue dropped precipitously, but is now

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