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...
Reintroduction of SALSA Aims to Fix Lab PAMA Reporting
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...
Why Clinical Labs Must Prepare for Value-Based Care
As clinical laboratories continue to evolve to adapt to new innovations and approaches to patient care, one change the industry has been slow to fully embrace is the advent of value-based care and how it will impact laboratory medicine. Value-based care describes the...
Major COVID Testing Changes Expected as Health Emergency Ends
A number of key waivers put in place at the beginning of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency to facilitate widespread testing will end when the emergency declaration expires on May 11, according to recent updates from CMS. While labs and providers performing COVID...