CEO SUMMARY: Providers seem to have a natural distrust of health insurers, particularly when payers introduce new programs with the stated purpose of improving quality and ensuring that physicians deliver evidence-based medicine. Doctors serving members of UHC’s HMO plans in Florida are told by UHC that it wants to improve the quality of lab test […]
Physicians and Labs Wary of United’s Lab Test Program
UHC says goal is improved quality, but physicians, labs see program as cost control
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXI No. 14 - October 13, 2014 Issue
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