October 2010

Systems Approach For Pre-Authorization Of Genetic Tests

CEO Summary: Pre-authorization of expensive genetic and molecular tests is a threat to local clinical laboratories and pathology groups if payers exclude them from provider networks in favor of labs which bid the lowest prices. But one major healthcare corporation believes there is now an opportunity for clinical labs and pathology groups to deliver added …

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Quality Strategy Earns Honor for SD Laboratory

Lean Six Sigma / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Here’s a new lab product launch with a surprise twist. Upon earning FDA clearance for its new HIV Ag/Ab Combo Assay this spring, Abbott Diagnostics selected a hospital laboratory in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to be the nation’s first clinical lab to offer the assay. The honor was recognition of the Avera McKennan …

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October 4, 2010 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

In Hawaii, two competing clinical laboratory companies have joined forces to save a medical technologist (MT) training program from closure. Together, Clinical Laboratories of Hawaii, LLP (CLH–owned by Sonic Healthcare), and Diagnostic Laboratory Services, Inc. (DLS), contributed more than $100,000 to the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) at the University of Hawaii at …

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