September 2013

Attorneys for CAP Say CMS Fee Proposals Illegal

CEO SUMMARY: In its comments about a proposal to change the way CMS pays for clinical laboratory and pathology services, the College of American Pathologists (CAP) said that CMS is using faulty assumptions. CAP further commented that the CMS proposal to cap physician fee schedule payments at the level of hospital outpatient department rates violates …

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CMS’ Proposed Lab Rules May Not Fly with Congress

Laboratory Management / By Joseph Burns

CEO SUMMARY: Many clinical lab administrators have noticed the new activism at the federal Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) when it comes to control of establishing prices for clinical laboratory tests. In this exclusive interview, two long-time advocates for the National Independent Laboratory Association discuss several of the issues associated with the three proposed …

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Hospitals Recognize Need for Uniform Lab Test Data

Laboratory Information Systems / By Joseph Burns

CEO SUMMARY: Hospitals may soon insist that payers allow their in-house labs to provide outpatient testing regardless of exclusive managed care contracts with national lab companies. The migration to accountable care organizations (ACOs) and medical homes makes it essential that physicians have access to lab data across the entire continuum of care. Standardization of reporting …

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September 9, 2013 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

bioMérieux is on the move. Last week it announced that it would pay $450 million to purchase privately-held BioFire Diagnostics of Salt Lake City, Utah. BioFire has a solid tech- nology base in molecular diagnostics. It developed and currently markets its FilmArray product, which it describes as a multiplex PCR system. BioFire also designed the LightCycler …

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