What's Changing in Managed Care Contracting? plus a COVID-19 update

9.9.20 Rhodes Group's Director of Product Management, Rick VanNess, participated in a panel on how insurance companies are continually trying new methods for overseeing laboratory costs as well as how  COVID-19 has both helped and hindered the growth of many laboratories. Read the summary here.

How Has COVID-19 Affected Your Lab's Revenue Cycle?

5.14.20  The global COVID-19 pandemic has set the entire world into turmoil, including negatively affecting the US economy, causing a ripple effect down to healthcare organizations.

eMLC Mobile Specimen Collection Processing

6.17.20  eMLC (eMyLabCollect) is the future of mobile specimen collection processing. It allows collection of any specimen type, anywhere - on a hospital unit, a physician's office, nursing home, parking lot, even at a patient's home.

C21: Simplifying Complexity

7.8.20  Clinical laboratories are now required to provide advanced testing and clinical information algorithms to drive intelligent patient care management and optimize healthcare costs at both the health system, and community level.

Webinar: NCQA's Focus on Kidney Health and How Lab Information Can Help

11.4.20 A new HEDIS measure for identifying and monitoring kidney health among patients with diabetes has been implemented!  Within this measure, laboratory tests are the focal point of the financial incentives related to this measure.  This webinar will discusses why the Kidney Health Measure was implemented, how laboratory results are used within the measure, and the dollars related to increasing compliance with this measure. 

Opportunity for Real-Time, Longitudinal Clinical Laboratory Data to Enhance Diabetes Disease Surveillance: A Cross-Sectional, Laboratory Database–Enabled Population Study

Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine

Dr. Teofilo Borunda Duque and the Clinical Solutions team at Rhodes Group published their work with TriCore Reference Laboratories demonstrating how laboratories can play a role in population health, specifically monitoring diabetes.  They used the Rhodes Repository Engine to identify the number of diabetics in New Mexico and compared it against the CDC’s methodology of estimating the number of diabetics.

Improving the Delivery of Healthcare through Clinical Diagnostic Insights: A Valuation of Laboratory Medicine through "Clinical Lab 2.0"