CEOSUMMARY: Effective on January 1, 2007, UnitedHealth Group will have one national contract laboratory. On that date, Laboratory Corporation of America becomes the preferred provider and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated becomes an out-of-network laboratory. With access to 34 million United Health beneficiaries at stake, competition is likely to intensify between these two lab companies. IN THE […]
United Health: Quest Is “Out”–LabCorp Is “In”
UnitedHealth upends status quo and opts to use LabCorp exclusively
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XIII No. 14 - October 16, 2006 Issue
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