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Lab Scheme Recruits Hospitals To Bill as In-Network Providers

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 15 – October 30, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Management companies using a new generation of potentially fraudulent schemes are targeting hospitals and health systems for arrangements that use questionable means to increase lab test volume and revenue. The management companies often use the term “hospital outpatient de…

New source of lab test abuse surfaces in the form of HOPDs and MSOs

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIV No. 15 – October 30, 2017 Issue

This is an excerpt from a 2,350-word article in the Oct. 30, 2017 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: …

Lab, Emergency Department at Cleveland Clinic Collaborate to Reduce Hemolysis Rates

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 7 – May 23, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Two years ago, the rate of hemolysis in blood drawn in the Cleveland Clinic’s Emergency Department was about nine times higher than the ASCP recommended rate of 2%. With a two-year cooperative agreement and funding from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Alan Lloyd, 62, Dies of Cancer, Formerly CIO of Sonic Health

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 15 – October 29, 2012 Issue

THIS SUMMER, the global clinical laboratory industry lost a true innovator in medical laboratory management, operations, and informatics. On August 8, 2012, Dr. Alan Lloyd died peacefully at home from pancreatic cancer. Lloyd was widely-respected for his unique approaches to laboratory operations, l…

Pursuing More Benefits From Next Generation Lab Automation

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 1 – January 18, 2011 Issue

CEO Summary: Once it was decided to replace an aging, five-year-old laboratory automation system at the laboratory of Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Illinois, the administration at the hospital issued a challenge. It asked the laboratory team to deliver an immediate 10% cos…

Recognizing Laboratory Leadership

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XIV No. 9 – June 25, 2007 Issue

WHEN LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA CLOSES ON THE SALE and becomes the owner of DSI Laboratories, Inc., of Fort Meyers, Florida, it will mark the end of one of the nation’s oldest hospital laboratory outreach programs. I consider this to be a good news/bad news…

FDA Sends Warning Letter to Abbott Laboratories

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 6 – April 23, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: On March 13, 2007, the Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to Abbott Laboratories’ Chairman and CEO, Miles D. White. The letter identified nine quality system violations and requested a satisfactory response by August 15, 2007. The warning letter is based on …

Victorville Community Hospital, Quest Diagnostics, ASCP, MIME

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 5 – April 10, 2006 Issue

ASCP ACQUIRES MIME’S CYTOLOGY TRAINING AND PROFICIENCY TESTING IT WAS A BIG BREAK for pathologists and cytotechnologists involved in Pap testing. In a deal announced at the end of February, the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) has acquired “the complete cyt…

Mayo’s Scottsdale Hospital Lab Hits Big “Lean” Home Runs

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XI No. 12 – August 30, 2004 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Are Lean and Six Sigma techniques ready to make a big contribution in the laboratories of smaller hospitals? If you ask lab managers at Mayo Clinic’s Scottsdale Hospital, the answer is an unqualified “Yes!” Their 15-week Lean project in the hospital’s high volume core…

Royal Free Hospital Is First Big British Lab Automation Project

By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 4 – March 24, 2003 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: To date, only a handful of total laboratory automation (TLA) projects have been implemented in Great Britain. One of those first TLA projects is at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, located in the northern suburbs of London. Design work started in 1998 and the first phase b…

Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024

The fragmentation of consumer markets is reflected in clinical lab services, and The Dark Report examines this trend and how it will impact labs in the coming years. Also, The Dark Report notes that the FDA has issued a controversial memo to reclassify many high-risk IVD assays.

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