June 2012

In Florida, New Law Bans Certain Lab Sales Practices

CEO SUMMARY: Florida law has long prohibited clinical laboratories from giving kickbacks and other forms of remuneration to physicians to induce specimen referrals. Specifically, state regulations have prevented labs from placing specimen collectors in physicians’ offices. Despite these clear prohibitions, labs regularly violated state rules by placing specimen collectors and other lab employees in physicians’ […]

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Health Insurers Now Finding Ways to Cut Costs and Shed Risks

Laboratory Management / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Both employers and health insurers are taking aggressive steps to rein in healthcare costs. Several strategies to control spending and create powerful new incentives for providers are gaining favor. At this year’s Executive War College, Paul Mango of McKinsey & Company, explained these strategies and emphasized that new models for handling health risk

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Lab Restructuring Moves Ahead in United Kingdom and Ireland

Laboratory Management / Robert Michel

IT IS TOUGH TIMES FINANCIALLY for pathology and clinical laboratories in the British Isles. In both the nations of the United Kingdom and Ireland, the budget woes of the respective national governments are driving major changes in the organization and delivery of laboratory testing services. In the United Kingdom, efforts by the government dating back

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June 4, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / Robert Michel

It’s a milestone on the path to personalized medicine and an example of how integrated health informatics will give clinicians real-time access to unlimited amounts of medical data. The 1000 Genomes Project announced in recent months that “the world’s largest set of data on human variation” is now available on the Amazon Web Services cloud

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