CEO SUMMARY: It continues to be tough going in Florida for UnitedHealthcare and its contractor, BeaconLBS. Efforts to implement the UHC laboratory benefit management program face stiff resistance from some physicians and a number of state medical associations. One primary care group in Vero Beach says payments for its clinical lab test claims have been inconsistent since April 1 because it refuses to use UnitedHealthcare’s Beacon Laboratory Benefit Solutions pro- gram when ordering tests for UHC’s commercial patients.
UnitedHealth Not Paying Lab Claims of Some Docs
One Florida medical group says it is prepared not to renew its contract with UnitedHealthcare
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXII No. 11 - August 3, 2015 Issue
- Tags: aco, clinical lab, clinical lab test, Clinical Laboratory, clinical laboratory test, clinical laboratory tests, dark report, electronic health record, electronic health record system, impac, lab management, lab test, lab tests, Laboratory benefit management program, laboratory service, laboratory services, laboratory test, laboratory tests, Medicare, pathologists, the dark report
