title: Revenue risk and price transparency in hospital-based laboratories.
abstract: Two developments with important revenue implications for hospital laboratories demand the attention of hospital finance leaders: > Significant differences in pricing between higher-priced hospital-based laboratory services and lower-priced services delivered by commercial laboratories give patients a disincentive to use the hospital-based services. > Hospital operating revenue will be substantially affected beginning in 2017 by deep, statutory cuts in payment for the highest-volume tests on the Part B Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule.
authors.forename: Jeffrey H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Myers
mesh_terms: D017722:Hospital Charges; D033181:Information Dissemination; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000191:economics*