Feb 23 2010
Millennium
Laboratories, a leading provider of therapeutic drug monitoring and
education to physicians and staff treating chronic pain patients,
announced today a national agreement with Aetna,
one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits companies
that serves approximately 36.3 million people. Under the terms of the
three-year ancillary services agreement which went into effect February
1, 2010, Millennium Laboratories’ will assist Aetna participating
physicians nationwide with state-of-the-art therapeutic drug monitoring
services and tools. These will help physicians better manage their
patients’ pain while at the same time aiding compliance with pain
medication regimens.
James Slattery, Millennium Laboratories CEO, commented, “We are proud to
have been selected by Aetna as a national pain management services
provider. Aetna’s support of therapeutic drug monitoring services for
their participating physicians advances urine drug screening as a
standard of care to ensure patients have quality pain management. As a
leader in this field, pain physicians know they can rely on Millennium
Laboratories as we provide the fastest turn-around time in the industry
for drug test reporting and final confirmation of results because we
exclusively utilize the latest cutting-edge technology, Liquid
Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry/Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).”