CEO SUMMARY: In its primary push to use the Medicare Laboratory Competitive Bidding Demonstration Project as a tool to drive down the price Medicare pays for Part B laboratory testing services, CMS is giving secondary attention to patients’ needs. In particular, CMS seems to place little value on the multi-year relationship and loyalty many elderly […]
Anticipate Access/Service Decline for S.D. Patients
Three levels of access to lab testing services not addressed in design of the lab bidding demo
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XIV No. 18 - December 31, 2007 Issue
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