Why Mastering the Front End is Crucial to Lab RCM
By: Cassie Penn, Client Manager, Lighthouse Lab Services Laboratories have been in a whirlwind since the COVID pandemic started in 2019. Now that we have reached the end of the pandemic and the Public Health Emergency, laboratories need to work on tightening up their...
Watch for Shifts in COVID Testing Pay Ratio as Emergency Ends
By: Ann Lambrix, VP of RCM Consulting, Lighthouse Lab Services. About this article: Our monthly “RCM Industry Spotlight” series highlights timely findings from Lighthouse’s proprietary RCM Spotlight denial management tool. If you’d like to...
Reintroduction of SALSA Aims to Fix Lab PAMA Reporting
Independent laboratories have been pushed to the brink of financial instability in recent years due to the price cuts mandated by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA). However, as part of a yearslong effort to rectify the problematic pricing and...
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...