3 Cost Changes Facing Labs and Providers in the New Year
By: Dyana Williams, Client Manager, Lighthouse RCM Solutions Don’t you love the way we use the phrase “perfect storm” to describe adverse situations? It does bring to mind the way that a combination of events can coalesce into something much greater than the sum of... 6 Things Labs Need to Be Aware of in 2023
Clinical laboratories and healthcare providers as a whole received a number of welcome reprieves from potential payment cuts and burdensome regulation as 2022 drew to a close. But that doesn’t mean many of these issues couldn’t be resurrected in a different form in... VALID Act Excluded from Omnibus Package, Payment Cuts Delayed
In a win for laboratory innovation, the VALID Act, which would have created a new risk-based framework for regulating lab developed tests (LDTs), was excluded from the year-end omnibus spending package recently finalized by Congress, meaning the legislation... 2023 Medicare PFS: See Impact to Labs and Pathology
UPDATE: Cuts for Labs, Pathology Again Proposed in 2024 MPFS The 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule was released by CMS late Thursday, Nov 3. After two consecutive years of Congress delaying a number of anticipated reimbursement cuts due to the impact of... 
Lighthouse Acquires MJB Lab Consulting, Expanding Medical Leadership Services