CEO SUMMARY: California’s financially destructive capitation rates plunged two more laboratories into bankruptcy. Unilab’s actions indicate that even the largest laboratory company in the state can no longer survive without reimbursement relief. The question remains as to whether managed care plans will agree to pay more for laboratory testing. INDICATIONS ARE THAT CAPITATED RATES for […]
Unilab Pushes Insurers To Increase Cap Rates
Action may trigger lab industry movement to raise capitated lab rates in California
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume IV No. 3 - February 17, 1997 Issue
- Tags: cap, Capitation, care contracts, clinical lab, clinical laboratories, Clinical Laboratory, commercial laboratory, cytology laboratory, dark report, Fee-for-service, hie, impac, laboratories, laboratory company, laboratory service, laboratory services, laboratory test, laboratory testing, laboratory tests, managed care, managed care companies, managed care contract, managed care contracts, managed care plan, managed care plans, managed healthcare, Medicare, the dark report
