Parkway Clinical Lab

Anyone heard of this lab? Starting to see more of them in Mid-West, but heard they are national. Seem to be setting up screening labs in doctors office, managing the lab and then getting all the confirm work. They set the lab up for free and manage it for a flat rate per month. Usually about $1000. They use their own employees to staff the site too. Is this legal?

 

Not with federal funds. Violation of stark laws. Commercial... go to town.

 

Of course no federal funds are in the agreements, but they sure do take all the CMS work! They think they can get away with it by stating the pain group doesn't have to send them the federal work. These labs are jokes!

 

Heard from a potential client this lab is in trouble. Collection and audit issues. Rumor is owner is trying to use political connections to get out of problems. None of the politicians will help because of Menendez trial. Anyone hear the same thing?

 

What lab isn't trying to use political connections to help with the insane auditing of CMS? All us labs need to stop fighting and band together to stop this crap. The only labs that will survive this are LC and Q. Smaller labs need to find other labs they can merge with to fight the big 2 off. Build up the revenue and then sell to the big 2. This is the only way forward!

 

Mom and pop labs cannnot compete with the cash flow of larger labs. Hence audits shut down smaller labs but keep afloat larger ones.

 

Heard this lab is trying to get their SAMHS license. Seems weird since Aeigis gave their license up! Anyone hear anything?

 

Keep hearing rumors this lab is in trouble like all the other small labs. While owner is connected politically, they have not in-network contracts. Owner is trying to use politician to get him in-network with local Blue Cross and UPMC. Both those contracts are closed to new labs. Labcorp and Quest have final say on who gets in to theses contracts. This lab is only collecting on about 40% of their claims and now have hired Telecore as their billing solution like that will help. This is a sinking ship that is why they are trying to get new business lines open with SAMHSA. That is foolish as Quest and Labcorp control the market at $8 a drug screen.