CEO SUMMARY: California Medi-Cal officials may be creating more problems than they solve with their latest scheme to have independent laboratories sign contracts with their Medicaid program—while excluding hospital laboratory outreach programs and labs operated from physicians’ clinics and offices. Nominally, the goal is to reduce fraudulent lab test claims submitted to the California Medicaid […]
California Medicaid Prepares To Issue Lab Contracts
Agency will use contracts to restrict labs which can legally bill for Medicaid testing
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