CEO SUMMARY: Since 2011, state officials in California have aggressively cut laboratory testing fees for Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. Now state officials say they will implement a new methodology next month for determining lab testing fees. The new methodology is based on lab pricing data produced as a result of whistleblower lawsuits against labs that were settled in 2011. Should prices fall below the costs of performing these tests, the Medi-Cal program may see legal challenges from the lab industry.
Medi-Cal to Cut Lab Pay on July 1 by 25% to 30%
Latest round of deep lab price cuts follows several years of other lab test fee reductions
- By Joseph Burns
- | From the Volume XXII NO. 9 - June 22, 2015 Issue
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