Other healthcare disciplines are experiencing similar problems. Nursing has the largest
work force and is most visible to the patient population; thus the nursing shortage gets much …

Due to an economic downturn in the late 1980s and early 1990s, employers moved to adopt
managed care plans which reduced costs but limited employee options. This era saw a …

During the campaign and initial days of the new Administration, a call was made for legislative
action that would provide health insurance payment to the uninsured or underinsured. …

Laboratories, along with many other healthcare providers, have been'squeezed'for many years
now by the payment policies of the outpatient Medicare program (Part B), and by those of …

There are data from the federal agency, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA),
that show no significant difference between licensure and non-licensure states in …

With Medicare and Medicaid in place, Congress set about determining how to properly staff
the medical community to meet the needs of patients. Continuing to work in a spirit of …

• The MedPAC suggests that laboratories would standardize nomenclature for tests using
LOINC codes, which are more specific that CPT codes. LOINC codes are not commonly used …

VOL 19, NO 1 WINTER 2006 CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE 3 winners, and those with
bids greater than the pivotal bid are losers. All winning laboratories will be paid the same …

VOL 19, NO 2 SPRING 2006 CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE 67 analyzing Medicare
outpatient claims. Previous CCI edits have looked at pairs of current procedural terminology …

Washington Beat is intended to provide a timely synopsis of activity in the nation’s capitol of
importance to clinical laboratory practitioners. This section is coordinated jointly by Kathy …