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Adding Lab Testing and LDTs
Keys to Adding a Laboratory to Your Gastroenterology Practice
Building a laboratory within a gastroenterology (GI)practice can be a strategic move to boost control over your samples and improve your standing with private payers, providing physicians with opportunities for increased efficiency and revenue. In this guide, we'll...
How to Start a Toxicology Laboratory
Offering drug screening through an in-house toxicology laboratory also allows the physician to customize their panels and targets while avoiding additional unnecessary testing.
The Benefits of Transitioning from CLIA-Waived to Moderate Complexity Testing
Making the leap from CLIA-waived testing to moderate complexity testing in your laboratory can be a game-changer for your practice. While it will initially involve making a more substantial commitment to your testing business, making the transition to moderate complexity testing ultimately offers greater control over patient outcomes, test quality, and revenue generation.
Clinical Laboratory
Lab Instrument Preventive Maintenance: Key Guide for CLIA-Compliant Clinical Laboratories
Laboratory owners and leaders recognize that reliable instrumentation is the foundation of high-quality testing. In today’s increasingly complex regulatory and operational environment, consistent equipment performance goes beyond mere technical requirements…
Keys to Adding a Laboratory to Your Gastroenterology Practice
Building a laboratory within a gastroenterology (GI)practice can be a strategic move to boost control over your samples and improve your standing with private payers, providing physicians with opportunities for increased efficiency and revenue. In this guide, we'll...
Balancing Compliance, Risk, and Revenue in Toxicology Testing
For many labs, toxicology has long been a top target for payer audits. Reimbursement cuts and stricter “medical necessity” interpretations are raising denials, claw-backs, and scrutiny, especially around frequency of testing and documentation quality.
Pathology Management
Keys to Adding a Laboratory to Your Gastroenterology Practice
Building a laboratory within a gastroenterology (GI)practice can be a strategic move to boost control over your samples and improve your standing with private payers, providing physicians with opportunities for increased efficiency and revenue. In this guide, we'll...
Understanding and Navigating Medicare MUE, PTP Edits
As with most CMS initiatives, it can be difficult to keep pace with the constantly evolving list of MUEs, especially when considering CMS and other carriers reserve the right to maintain a list of unpublished MUEs that providers and their billers likely won’t know about until they receive a denial.
Resource Guide: Improving Quality Management in Medical Labs
Ensuring high-quality operations and standards of care is not just best practice in medical laboratories; it’s also an essential regulatory requirement.
Tips for New Lab Owners
Lab Instrument Preventive Maintenance: Key Guide for CLIA-Compliant Clinical Laboratories
Laboratory owners and leaders recognize that reliable instrumentation is the foundation of high-quality testing. In today’s increasingly complex regulatory and operational environment, consistent equipment performance goes beyond mere technical requirements…
Balancing Compliance, Risk, and Revenue in Toxicology Testing
For many labs, toxicology has long been a top target for payer audits. Reimbursement cuts and stricter “medical necessity” interpretations are raising denials, claw-backs, and scrutiny, especially around frequency of testing and documentation quality.
3 Key Benefits of Building an In-House Laboratory
As physician practices and community healthcare providers consistently seek to improve quality and provide better value to patients, one pathway that can achieve both outcomes is to move laboratory testing in-house. In addition to offering a better patient experience...
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