CMS Allows Continuation of Remote Review, Definitive Drug Testing LCDs Retired
In a win for digital pathology, CMS released new draft guidance this month clarifying that pathologists and other lab personnel may continue to review digital laboratory data, results, and images (“digital materials”) remotely, without obtaining a separate CLIA...
Why Mastering the Front End is Crucial to Lab RCM
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...
Watch for Shifts in COVID Testing Pay Ratio as Emergency Ends
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...
NY State Lab Directors Could Oversee More Facilities Under Proposed Rules
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...