Aug 10, 2009 | Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory Pathology
While no one was looking, nine big insurers grabbed 76.7% of privately-insured patients! Consolidation of major health insurance companies in recent years is a trend which reinforced the market clout of the nation’s two largest lab companies at the expense of local laboratories and pathology groups. However, few pathologists and clinical lab managers know precisely how much market power is currently concentrated into the hands of only a few health insurance companies. Dark Daily now unveils a...