What Does It Cost to Start an In-House Pathology Lab?
Starting an in-house pathology lab, or physician office laboratory (POL), provides a number of benefits for both physicians and patients. A POL is a lab that operates within a physician’s office or clinic and offers diagnostic testing and pathology services to...
Pathology Job Market Struggling to Meet Increasing Demand
By: Mick Raich, former President of RCM Consulting, Lighthouse Lab Services/Vachette The pathology job market is quickly changing. Several years ago, I did a speech about the pathology job market and noted there were 351 open pathology positions nationwide at the...
Why Clinical Labs Must Prepare for Value-Based Care
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...
3 Things to Know When Billing for Genetic and Molecular Testing
This article was updated with new information on March 5, 2023. As labs throughout the country continue to explore new revenue streams in the face of seemingly endless annual cuts from CMS and commercial payers, many are adding genetic testing and molecular...