Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. Announces Indiana Correctional Healthcare Contract
Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. announced that Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service Group Inc., has amended its Master Contract for prison health services with Bio-Reference Laboratories to include clinical laboratory services for the entire state prison system of the State of Indiana. PHS has had the contract with Indiana since July 1997 and effective July 19, 2004, will convert the clinical laboratory services contract to Bio-Reference under an existing national services contract. Prior contracts for clinical laboratory services between PHS and BRLI have been in the Middle Atlantic States and New England area; this contract represents a geographical expansion of the relationship.
BRLI indicated that clinical laboratory services are provided to inmates on both an intake and as-needed fee for service basis and it is difficult to assess the exact value of the contract, but based on previous experience, BRLI expects the annualized revenues under this addendum to exceed $600,000 per year. The Indiana contract encompasses 34 facilities with an average adult and juvenile inmate population of approximately 23,000.
Marc D. Grodman M.D., President noted, “ASGR is a valued business partner. We seek to expand our correctional healthcare market well beyond our regional physician office footprint and we believe that our relationship with ASGR and the current contract in Indiana are great platforms upon which to build that expansion. Our focused specialty marketing services are now being deployed throughout the country and we believe that this contract sends a clear signal that we effectively executing our strategy for growth.”
About PHS
PHS currently provides correctional health services to 90 prison and jail clients across 26 states, covering over 244,000 detainees in 325 facilities.
About Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc.
The Company is the largest independent regional clinical laboratory in the Northeast and has major market positions in physician offices, nursing homes and correctional institutions. The Company is a full service clinical laboratory with specialty capability, especially in the areas of genomics, oncology, correctional health, and complimentary medicine. PSIMedica, a business unit of the Company, is a clinical knowledge management (CKM) organization offering an array of information solutions for reducing healthcare costs and improving quality performance that are based on a flexible, scalable software analytical engine that utilizes all available source information, including claims data, enrollment data, prescription data and laboratory data. The Company provides a comprehensive connectivity solution to physicians, which includes disease management, laboratory reporting and ordering, as well as claims and eligibility processing through CareEvolve, its web-based healthcare portal.
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