By: Cassie Penn, Client Manager, Lighthouse Lab Services Laboratories have been in a whirlwind since the COVID pandemic started in 2019. Now that we have reached the end of the pandemic and the Public Health Emergency, laboratories need to work on tightening up their...
By: Ann Lambrix, VP of RCM Consulting, Lighthouse Lab Services. About this article: Our monthly “RCM Industry Spotlight” series highlights timely findings from Lighthouse’s proprietary RCM Spotlight denial management tool. If you’d like to...
By: Tara Luellen, VP of Lab Director Services, Lighthouse Lab Services New York State recently proposed several amendments to regulations regarding laboratory directors (LDs), including moves that would impact the number of laboratories they can oversee and the...
Toxicology labs and pain management providers should be on alert for the combination of fentanyl and xylazine after the White House recently designated the mixture of these drugs as an emerging threat to the United States. Xylazine, also known as tranq or tranq dope,...
Independent laboratories have been pushed to the brink of financial instability in recent years due to the price cuts mandated by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA). However, as part of a yearslong effort to rectify the problematic pricing and...
Starting an in-house pathology lab, or physician office laboratory (POL), provides a number of benefits for both physicians and patients. A POL is a lab that operates within a physician’s office or clinic and offers diagnostic testing and pathology services to...