CEO SUMMARY: After two years of concerted effort, laboratories in New York are optimistic that state legislators will finally repeal an 8.18% surcharge tax on clinical laboratory tests. The significant insight behind this story is how laboratories educated patients about the surcharge. The response was a public deluge of phone calls and letters to elected […]
Legislators May Repeal NY Lab Surcharge Tax
NY lab association’s repeal efforts prove that labs can create public outcry for change
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume VI No. 6 - April 26, 1999 Issue
- Tags: clinical lab, clinical laboratories, Clinical Laboratory, clinical laboratory test, clinical laboratory tests, ehi, health care reform, health care reform act, lab industry, lab test, lab testing, laboratories, laboratory association, laboratory test, laboratory testing, laboratory tests, Medicare, the laboratory
