May 19, 2017 | Compliance, Legal, and Malpractice, Laboratory Operations, Laboratory Pathology, Managed Care Contracts & Payer Reimbursement
Clinical laboratories must stay informed about the success of bundled-payment initiatives because they will need to negotiate a share of these payments where medical laboratory testing is involved Research published this year concluded that bundled payments for joint replacement services performed on Medicare patients reduce Medicare’s costs without negatively affecting patient outcomes. Because these types of surgeries do not generally utilize many lab tests, the question is still out as to...
