November 2004

Physician Group Path Ventures To Undergo OIG Review in 2005

IN ITS FISCAL YEAR 2005 WORK PLAN, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) will “identify and review relationships between physicians who furnish pathology services in their offices and outside pathology companies.” It is another sign that federal healthcare investigators are concerned that more specialist physician groups are creating …

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Aligning Pathologist Productivity With Compensation Can Be Challenging

Pathology Trends / By Robert Michel

“Growing interest in ways to link a pathologist’s productivity to his/her compensation makes this a widely-discussed topic within many pathology group practices.” –Dennis Padget CEO SUMMARY: Part Three continues THE DARK REPORT’S series on measuring pathologist productivity. In this installment, pathology practice consultant Dennis Padget identifies different approaches to appropriately link pathologist productivity with compensation. …

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Applied Digital’s Verichip™, Laboratory Corp. of America

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

IMPLANTABLE HUMAN IDENTIFICATION CHIP CLEARED BY FDA IT’S A DEVELOPMENT THAT INVOKES images from both George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. An implantable radio frequency identification microchip (RFID) for human use was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for medical applications in the United States. On October 13, Applied …

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“November 1, 2004 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

At a steady rate, healthcare is evolving toward a fully-electronic, Internet-based informatics environment. Here are some noteworthy mile-stones that illustrate this progress. During 2003, consumers’ use of the Web to access their health insurers’ Web sites increased 94%! So reports the Manhattan Institute of New York City in a report titled “Hospital and Health Plan …

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