GAO Report Shows Medicare Advantage Plans Could Be a Disadvantage for Seniors with Health Issues; Narrow Networks Continue to Impact Smaller Clinical Laboratories

Tight provider networks have some seniors dropping private plans after losing access to ‘preferred doctors and hospitals’ and experiencing issues with ‘access to care’ Medicare Advantage Plans continue to rise in popularity. That trend has implications for clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups because private insurers running Medicare Advantage plans tend to have narrow or […]

Source: Dark Daily - February 14, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jude Tags: dark daily home page Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Testing AHIP America’s Health Insurance Plans anatomic pathology Center for Medicare Advocacy centers for medicare and medicaid services clinical laboratory CMS David Lipschutz JD Source Type: news