CEO SUMMARY: Physicians in Florida continue to express significant concerns about UnitedHealthcare’s pilot program requiring pre-notification for 80 clinical laboratory tests, including many routine tests, and pre-authorization for two genetic tests. The pro- gram is so onerous that some physicians have said they want to get out of their United contracts. Moreover, during a recent webinar to show Florida physicians how the BeaconLBS system works, officials from BeaconLBS could not get the system to function!
Florida Docs Seek to Cut Ties with UnitedHealthcare
BeaconLBS program leads physicians to say UHC patients may need to go elsewhere for care
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXII No. 1 - January 5, 2015 Issue
- Tags: aco, clinical lab, Clinical Laboratory, clinical laboratory test, clinical laboratory tests, electronic medical record, electronic medical record system, electronic medical record systems, genetic test, genetic tests, lab benefit management, lab test, laboratories, Laboratory benefit management program, laboratory test, laboratory tests, medical lab, medical laboratories, Medical laboratory, medical laboratory test, medical laboratory tests, pathologists
