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...
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...
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...
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...
A couple of key laboratory legislative issues that were put on hold at the end of 2022 now appear to be making comebacks as they seek new Congressional champions. Check out the news roundup below for the latest developments on VALID, SALSA, and more. VALID...
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