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August 2023

Online Exclusive: Robert Michel Discusses Three Notable Items from AACC Meeting

ROBERT MICHEL, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE DARK REPORT, attended July’s American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Scientific Meeting in Anaheim, California. In this video from the exhibit hall, Michel noted three important changes at the conference.   Among Michel’s observations were the following: Name change. “This is the last year that this is the AACC […]

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OIG Says Billing Code 81408 Is at Risk of ‘Improper’ Payment

Clinical laboratories may have heard billing code 81408 referred to as “fraudomatic,” and now the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has attached a remarkable number to this problem: $888 million over four years. Payers now have an even greater reason to inspect 81408 claims from genetic testing labs. Reaffirming past reporting here and elsewhere, a

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