CEO SUMMARY: For the first time in almost eight years, there are major disruptions to the status quo in managed care contracting for laboratory testing services. As was true in the 1990s, national lab companies are pursuing exclusive national contracts with the nation’s largest health insurers. In the 1990s, a similar competitive battle triggered a […]
Labs Can Be Misguided by Pull-Through Test Myth
Popular wisdom of the 1990s caused a precipitous decline in reimbursement
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XIV No. 5 - April 2, 2007 Issue
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