CEO SUMMARY: In recent years, many rural hospitals have entered into agreements to expand their laboratory outreach businesses. In an interview, the president of the National Association of Rural Hospitals said rural hospitals often bill for lab outreach services under Medicare’s 70/30 shell rule. This rule, as modified by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of […]
Rural Hospital Group Says Lab Billing Model Is Legal
70/30 rule exemption governs billing, says President of National Alliance of Regional Hospitals
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXV No. 10 - July 9, 2018 Issue
- Tags: billing and coding, care contracts, clinical lab, clinical laboratories, Clinical Laboratory, clinical laboratory testing, clinical laboratory tests, dark report, disruptive innovation, healthcare billing, hospital billing, lab outreach, lab testing, lab tests, laboratories, laboratory outreach, laboratory testing, laboratory tests, managed care, managed care contracts, Medicare, pass through billing, the dark report
