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Lighthouse Acquires Burns Consulting Group, Strengthens Managed Care Contracting Services

sarah JonasAnnouncement

Lighthouse Lab Services, the nation’s leading and full-service medical laboratory consulting and recruiting firm, is pleased to highlight its dual acquisitions of Vachette Pathology and Burns Consulting Group in 2021.

With these acquisitions, Lighthouse has added new revenue cycle management consulting and managed care contracting services to its existing offerings for the clinical laboratory and pathology community.
The company’s growth was also highlighted in Inc. Magazine’s 2021 Inc. 5000 list, which annually honors the country’s fastest growing private companies.

Lighthouse President Jon Harol will be available at the 2021 AACC Lab Expo to take questions on the company’s recent expansion and new lines of service.

Eleven Provider and Patient Organizations Join the American College of Rheumatology to Oppose UnitedHealthcare Copay Accumulator Initiative

sarah JonasPolicy

Eleven provider and patient organizations have joined the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) to petition UnitedHealthcare (UHC) to cancel plans to implement a proposed copay accumulator initiative that would require physicians to share details about their patients’ usage of copay assistance programs. The initiative would prevent funds from assistance programs from being applied towards patients’ annual deductible and out-of-pocket maximums. The groups warn that this would jeopardize patient access to medically necessary therapies by increasing the financial burden of care and lead to an increase in treatment abandonment.