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Vol.2 Issue 2 The digital news magazine of RCM Enterprise Services, Inc. July 2019

Clearwater, Florida
Will Labs Survive

88°F
the Impact of PAMA?

Sunny with a chance
of thunderstorms

Sections:

—Featured Article

—Compliance Update

—Editorial

—Trending
—Corporate Report

—For the Humor of It

Laboratory tests are
the most frequently

ordered diagnostic
The HMO era of the early nineties brought deep cuts in laboratory test
procedures and prices sending laboratories to look for new ways to compensate for the
account for 80%
loss of revenue. Many labs today are facing another unsettling time when
of the patient’s
test prices will take another jolt of cuts undermining the financial integrity
medical record.
of the clinical laboratory. This is the year laboratories could feel PAMA’s
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impact. Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are requesting labs
to collect private payer pricing data to set new prices for regulating

laboratory fees. This could ultimately impact the clinical lab’s stake
in the market place as we know it today.

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