CEO SUMMARY: Poor financial performance of many managed care plans is bad news for clinical laboratories. Those insurance plans losing money find it tough to increase reimbursement for laboratory tests. Financial struggles of the health insurance industry should be closely watched for its impact upon physicians, hospitals and laboratories. TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY. After reporting […]
Kaiser Reports Huge Loss, Many HMOs Losing Money
A variety of intractable problems cause more than half of health insurers to bleed red ink
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume V No. 3 - March 2, 1998 Issue
- Tags: cap, clinical lab, clinical laboratories, commercial laboratory, dark report, impac, laboratories, laboratory executive, laboratory service, laboratory services, laboratory test, laboratory testing, laboratory tests, managed care, managed care plan, managed care plans, Medicare, the dark report
