Dec 21, 2015 | Coding, Billing, and Collections, Compliance, Legal, and Malpractice, Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory News, Laboratory Operations, Laboratory Pathology
Health plans increasingly refuse to pay out-of-network providers who they claim often inflate their charges, leaving patients with unexpected medical bills As health insurers narrow their provider networks in an effort to lower costs and hold down premiums, clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups may increasingly be designated as out-of-network providers and find themselves struggling to get paid. This is particularly true in cases where a hospital is in-network and its...
