What changes regarding laboratory services are UnitedHealthcare and its affiliates, including Oxford Health Plans, announcing?
Effective January 1, 2007, LabCorp will become UnitedHealthcare’s sole national laboratory services provider. Effective January 1, 2007, Quest Diagnostics will no longer be a contracted laboratory services provider for Oxford Health Plans or UnitedHealthcare except in limited markets. UnitedHealthcare has contracted with Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp) for reference laboratory services. LabCorp will participate with other regional and local laboratory providers in the comprehensive and expanding UnitedHealthcare laboratory network across the United States. LabCorp will also assume responsibility for managing the Oxford Health Plans laboratory network in the greater New York metropolitan region, effective January 1, 2007. • Who is LabCorp? LabCorp offers laboratory services that are as complete and comprehensive as any other national laboratory company. LabCorp offers more than 4,400 types of laboratory tests from routine blood assays to HIV and genomic testing. LabCorp proc
