CEO SUMMARY: Seeking the higher lab-test payment rates that insurers pay hospital labs, some lab testing companies are buying rural, financially-struggling hospitals in what may be the latest twist on the pass-through billing strategy that certain lab testing firms have found to be lucrative in recent years. Currently, two lab companies are seeking to buy […]
Why Lab Companies Buy Bankrupt Rural Hospitals
New twist on pass-through billing scheme targets small, financially-troubled facilities
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXV No. 8 - May 29, 2018 Issue
