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Interesting New Surprises for Lab Leaders
Unexpected and surprising things continue to happen in the clinical laboratory industry. You might consider that to be one unifying theme to the intelligence briefings we present in this issue of The Dark Report. For example, a…
Genesis Lab Lawsuit Pursues UnitedHealth Over Unpaid Test Claims
This is an excerpt of a 1,946-word article in the July 6, 2021 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: New case law in how health insurers should reimburse for COVID-19 lab test claims might be one outc…
NJ Lab Sues UnitedHealth Over Unpaid Test Claims
CEO SUMMARY: New case law in how health insurers should reimburse for COVID-19 lab test claims might be one outcome if a New Jersey lab company were to prevail in a federal lawsuit it filed against UnitedHealthcare alleging non-payment of COVID-19 test claims. An interesting fact me…
UnitedHealthCare’s New Policy Further Narrows Its Lab Network
UNITEDHEALTHCARE’S (UHC) RECENT MOVE to designate certain clinical and anatomic pathology laboratories as Designated Diagnostic Providers appears to be yet one more way that the insurer is narrowing its network. Effective July 1, 2021, and subject to st…
Hospitals Say New UHC Policy on Lab Network Is Anticompetitive
IT’S NOT OFTEN THAT HOSPITAL ASSOCIATIONS WILL DIRECTLY OPPOSE the changes that health insurers want to make in how they pay for clinical laboratory tests. But that is now happening with UnitedHealthcare’s new lab test payment policy that directly reduces what many hospital labs are paid fo…
January 19, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Just days ago, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued updated information about the COVID-19 tests it has authorized since early in the pandemic. As of Jan. 15, 2021, the agency had authorized a total of 317 tests for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Included in this total are 236 mo…
2020’s Top 10 Lab Stories Are Without Precedent!
CEO SUMMARY: There are several surprises in The Dark Report’s list of the Top 10 Lab Stories for 2020. Despite the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic dominating every aspect of clinical care, social…
UnitedHealthcare Delays Its New Test Registry Protocol Until April 1
CLINICAL LABORATORIES AND ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY GROUPS working to register their tests with UnitedHealthcare’s (UHC) new Laboratory Test Registry Protocol just got a 90-day reprieve. UHC has delayed the start date to April 1, 2021. …
New UnitedHealthcare Policy For Hospital Reference Tests
>CEO SUMMARY: Under a new policy UnitedHealthcare will start in May, hospital laboratories will no longer be allowed to bill for reference testing for members who are not hospital patients. The policy is likely to affect clinical lab testing for patients whose testing goes …
Be Careful Payers, You May Get What You Wish For!
Few clinical laboratory executives and pathologists would disagree with the assertion that both government and private payers would like to see the prices they pay for medical laboratory testing and the amount of money they spend reimbursing labs to stay flat or shrink from one year to the next. C…
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Volume XXVIII, No. 9 – July 6, 2021
A pathology lab company in New Jersey has sued UnitedHealthcare, seeking payment for 46,400 molecular COVID-19 test claims that are unpaid, representing about $20 million in reimbursement. Also, Labcorp is successfully using AI in its lab operations to improve work processes and gain real-time insights from vast amounts of data.
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