Refer SHBP Members to LabCorp or Quest Laboratories

Our network providers should refer their Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey patients, or send their specimens, to in-network labs for testing.

It’s important that our State Health Benefit Plan (SHBP) members, who use the Horizon Managed Care Network, use LabCorp® or Quest Diagnostics™ (Quest) laboratories¹ when receiving clinical laboratory services to help keep their out-of-pocket costs low.

Beginning July 1, 2019, SHBP members who use out-of-network laboratories will have their laboratory claims denied and may be responsible for the full cost of the lab services they receive. Out-of-network lab services will no longer be covered.

Members who are admitted to an in-network hospital may have their laboratory services performed at the facility.

Please encourage your SHBP patients to use LabCorp or Quest when they need clinical laboratory services to avoid out-of-network costs. In-network laboratories can be found by using our Doctor & Hospital Finder.

¹Pathology services provided in a hospital setting to members enrolled in Horizon BCBSNJ managed care plans by a practice that participates in the Horizon Managed Care Network are allowed as an exception to the above-described LabCorp/Quest Diagnostics network use requirements.

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