R. Lewis Dark
Articles by R. Lewis Dark
Don’t Let CMS Cap Future Top-Line Pathology Revenue
Regulators at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have demonstrated an uncanny ability to mistake standard group billing mechanics for systemic healthcare fraud. Driven in part by a flawed report from the Maryland Health Care Commission, CMS has proposed a 4% global payment cut …
CMS Proposals on Software Create a Storm for Labs
Our August 2026 issue outlines two federal requests for information (RFI) that share a theme: modernization of the clinical laboratory. And if lab leaders aren’t paying attention, they will be left behind. Look at what the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) slipped into its 2027 Ho…
Compliance Complacency Must Instead Become a Mandate for Action in Clinical Labs
The collective complacency currently permeating our industr…
Updated Look and New Issue Frequency for Print
Risk of Complacency May Be the Biggest Threat
Prevailing sentiment at the recent Executiv…
Three Signals to Take from Executive War College
We’ve arrived back from New Orleans and the 3…
There’s Good and Bad News about Allina-Sutter Deal
Allina Health, Sutter Health, diagnostic laboratories, integrated delivery network, IDN, artificial intelligence, AI, bot, RAND Journal of Economics, …
A Whistleblower Risk for Lab Leaders to Navigate
Our lead briefing details a federal appeals cou…
Permanent PAMA Reform Must Happen in 2026
Previously, it would have been hard to imagine …
Crucial Themes Shape 2026 Executive War College
With 2026 now upon us, our attention here at …
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Volume XXXIII, No. 11 – September 2026
In the September 2026 briefing, The Dark Report digs into a CMS proposal to cut payments for CPT code 88305, potentially based on flawed thinking. Other coverage includes the evolving role of mass spectrometry in clinical labs, payer obstacles to blood-based biomarker tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and how young pathologists can get business skill help.
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