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Quest Diagnostics urges restoration of Medicaid lab rates; asks legislature to complete promise from prior budget
Summary
Quest Diagnostics testified that Ohio lab reimbursements have not been restored as intended in the prior budget and urged the committee to raise laboratory Medicaid rates from about 75% to 80% of Medicare to align with surrounding states and sustain lab access.
Vivek Bhatt, president for the Great Midwest region at Quest Diagnostics, testified that Ohio’s Medicaid reimbursement for clinical laboratory testing remains below peer states and below the level the legislature intended in the prior budget.
Bhatt said clinical laboratory fees were supposed to increase under House Bill 33 but that, in implementation, only the venipuncture (blood-draw) fee…
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