Feb 16, 2007 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
When UnitedHealthcare decided to make Laboratory Corporation of America its exclusive national contract laboratory, effective January 1, 2007, it certainly set itself up for objections from doctors and patients who would be upset at the exclusion of Quest Diagnostics as a UnitedHealth laboratory provider. Now UnitedHealth has triggered another round of complaints from physicians by suggesting that it could fine a doctor $50 if his or her patient has tests done by a laboratory other than...
