Tag: the clinical laboratory

Northwell Health Lab Team Leverages Data to Add Value

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXVI No. 8 – June 10, 2019 issue

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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TriCore Finds Value-Based Healthcare a Profitable Endeavor

By Mary Van Doren, from the Volume XXVI No. 7 – May 20, 2019 issue

This is an excerpt from a 3,380-word article in the May 20, 2019 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group.

CEO SUMMARY: To develop new sources of revenue to offset declining fee-for-service payments, TriCore Reference Labs is collaborating with health insurers in novel ways to improve patient

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TriCore Forges Ahead to Help Payers Manage Population Health

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXVI No. 7 – May 20, 2019 issue

CEO SUMMARY: To develop new sources of revenue to offset declining fee-for-service payments, TriCore Reference Labs is collaborating with health insurers in novel ways to improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs. To achieve this, TriCore brings together data from lab tests, EHRs, patient demographics, and geography. Analytical tools allow it to assess population health

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The Bad News: Disruption. The Good News: Opportunity!

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XXVI No. 7 – May 20, 2019 issue

CEO SUMMARY: There was an interesting consensus that emerged from the 80 sessions and 118 speakers at this year’s Executive War College in New Orleans earlier this month. The consensus centered around two themes. One theme is disruption, which is bad news for those labs that hope to maintain the status quo. The other theme

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Ultimate Clinical Lab Automation: WakeMed Uses Drone to Deliver Patient Specimens

By Mary Van Doren, from the Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019 issue

This is an excerpt from a 1,550-word article in the April 8, 2019 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group.

CEO SUMMARY: For two years, clinical lab professionals at WakeMed Health and Hospitals have tested the use of aerial drones to transport patient specimens from a

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WakeMed Uses Drone to Deliver Patient Specimens

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019 issue

CEO SUMMARY: For two years, clinical lab professionals at WakeMed Health and Hospitals have tested the use of aerial drones to transport patient specimens from a physicians’ office satellite lab/draw station to the WakeMed Medical Center’s central lab. Late last month, they completed the first successful revenue-generating commercial transport of lab supplies by drone in

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Fla. Blue Cross Contract May Be Next Battleground

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXVI No. 4 – March 18, 2019 issue

CEO SUMMARY: In Florida, the Blue Cross Blue Shield contract is coming up for renewal and the question is whether it will renew as exclusive to one national lab company. But Florida is not the only state where BCBS plans are planning to issue new contracts. Among the Blues plans that may ask for proposals

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LIS-EHR Fees Increasing, Say Hospital Lab Execs

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXVI No. 4 – March 18, 2019 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Hospital and health system lab managers say some vendors of electronic health record systems for independent physicians are aggressively raising the fees they charge labs. Labs serving outreach physicians now pay more in two ways, they say. First, they pay the price the vendor charges to implement an LIS-to-EHR interface. Second, they pay

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Northwell Health Builds Two Big Lab Facilities

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXVI No. 3 – February 25, 2019 issue

CEO SUMMARY: At Northwell Health, the clinical laboratory team has been busy building and opening two new, large laboratory facilities. First to open was the lab in Little Neck, Queens, a shared lab with NYC Health and Hospitals. This lab will handle 36 million tests annually. The second lab to open is Northwell’s new core

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Senator Asks: Are Lab Test Payments Too High?

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXVI No. 2 – February 4, 2019 issue

CEO SUMMARY: It is ironic that, after the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) enacted the deepest price cuts to the Part B Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule in more than 50 years, a U.S. Senator now asks CMS why it will pay billions more for lab testing. The question from Iowa Senator Chuck

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Volume XXVI No. 8 – June 10, 2019

THE U.S. HAS LOST ALMOST 18% of its pathologists since 2007. This means the U.S. has even fewer pathologists than other countries who have already suffered adverse clinical lab quality events. TDR also digs further into what this means for the industry, finding that while salaries and benefits are increasing, higher pay will come with a heavier workload. Also, in a Clinical Lab 2.0 case study, TDR walks readers through the steps Northwell Health took to help improve patient care – and add value – by using its data to identify patients who were undiagnosed or misdiagnosed.

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