CEO SUMMARY: For decades, hospitals were reluctant to allow any outside lab company to run their inpatient lab operations because they preferred to maintain control over quality results and turnaround times. That attitude may be changing as health systems face increasing margin compression by moving to value-based reimbursement models and taking on more risk-based contracts. […]
Quest to Manage Six Labs at HCA HealthONE Hospitals
In Denver, Quest has agreement to manage inpatient labs for HealthONE, a division of HCA
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXIII No. 8 - June 13, 2016 Issue
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